Re: 64bit vs 32bit
By: Gryphon to All on Mon Nov 03 2014 10:43 am
Gr> I'm running Debian Wheezy on an Acer Aspire R1600. It's older, but it
Gr> supports 64bit, as I just found out. My current arrangment is 32bit
Gr> Debian Wheezy, but now I'm considering migrating to 64bit. But before I
Gr> do, I want to find out what would be the benefits vs the risks. Does
Gr> anybody have any experience with this?
benefits,
can address more than 4gb of RAM
risks,
not many. In Windows x64 you can't run 16bit apps, so old DOS games are out
unless you run them in DOSBox. I suspect Linux is probably more friendly to
older apps, but I don't run Linux too much to really study it extensively.
I have Debian Wheezy running virtually, I imagine it's 32bit.
I'd say if you have a 64-bit system you'll probably be OK. Exactly what CPU is
it? If it's some slow AMD Athlon chip thats several generations old, and you're
running less thant 4gb ram, then you might as well just run 32-bit. Not many
apps out there are 64-bit only.
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