> Nick, > > I hate to be all doom and gloom, but I previously tried to go down the > same route, and eventually gave up and installed the vanilla x86 (non > _64) version. > > After much pain and suffering, I finally found the compile options to > get mplayer working. I was never able to get wine to work just right, > and despite many "it all works" flash packages for 32 bit compatibility, > I was never able to get it to work. > > It was a lot of cost, and little benefit (I'm not running any apps on > my home comp that really benefit from being 64 bit), so I just gave up. > > My understanding is that 64 bit windows has the same problem. My hope > is that in the future there will be better 64 bit binary support, but > until that time, it just wasn't worth the hassle for me. > > Just a data point, hopefully someone else has a more positive mesage. > > - Rob > .
This is similar to my own experience with x86_64 Ubuntu. I seem to recall that in particular I was having problems with the binary nvidia graphics drivers. Eventually I decided it wasn't worth the trouble and switched to regular x86. If you want > 4GB of RAM then 64-bit is a must, but otherwise, I'm also not really sure what the advantages are. -Derek
