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state of 64bit support

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blueswitch

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ok I'm looking for an honest answer guys...Im looking to upgrade to feisty fawn..and I'm trying to decide 64bit or not, I have a turion laptop. I know at first I tried 64bit on my athlon tower and found somethings lacking like flash player support etc.....is it worth going 64bit or should I stay with the regular x86?
 
The only thing, and I repeat the only thing that isn't in 64bit that you can't simply find a custom version for is flash....and for that there is nspluginwrapper.

Now, almost everything has been ported to 64bit. Some older applications/games aren't, but then again they are open source so if they don't work right off..just compile it yourself;).
 
ok let me ask this then....will I see much of a performance increase with 64 bit then?...or is it more a RAM scaling thing?
 
i doubt you'll notice any difference as a desktop system.

I've been running 64bit gentoo for months with no problems, btw.
 
Well using full 64bit with FAH will definately give you a performance advantage. Because the 64bit just means you have a 64bit memory address space (im pretty sure) whichs helps immensely with mathematical calculations as far as I know.
 
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