I tried installing 64-bit Ubuntu desktop just because I could and
discovered:
It takes a lot longer to launch.
Firefox doesn't work, at least not out of the box.
Gnome won't mount WebDAV shares.
So out of curiosity I went to the web to find out a little about 64-
bit OSes and this seems to be the conventional wisdom:
There are no advantages to 64-bit OSes that offset the losses from
bigger code due to bigger pointers and integers
There are classes of applications that can really benefit from 64-
bithood, especially those that memory map big files.
32-bit OSes can be written to support 64-bit applications at least on
Intel and PowerPC.
So why is Linux moving in the direction of separate 32-bit and 64-bit
builds? Is it just to remain portable on less popular hardware?
--
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and
you are out there
-Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)
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