Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Let's kill this myth: 64 > 32 after all

So why would you choose to install a 32-but Linux instead of a 64-bit Linux?

Flash player won't work
sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree : It Just Works.

Java won't work
Yes, it will. I have Eclipse running quite happily (though am yet to run the Power MTR QA benchmark we set ourselves at work!)
Oh, maybe you meant the plugin? Well, if the GNU Java plugin didn't already float (double?) your 64-bit boat, then Sun have now released one too.

Wine doesn't work in 64-bit
I play the Windows binary version of EVE with premium (DX9) graphics content at entirely decent framerates. Again I say: It Just Works.

I like paying for RAM that my operating system can't see
Uh...

But there are loads of posts on the Interwebs about people not finding drivers for 64-bit...
...Windows. For Linux, if it's in the kernel tree, it's there (especially with the unification of the 32- and 64-bit architectures).

Coming soon: KDE 4.1, and why people are wrong about it.

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