[wellylug] 32bit or 64bit

[Brent Wood]

--- Harrold Potter <dakmani1 at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:

> Ok what is my best option. I am playing with Ubuntu and Kubuntu at the
> moment, I like the look and ease of use of KDE best though and am still not
> technically minded like the majority of people on here but I must say I have
> come a long way since a year ago using Xandros.
> 
> At the moment I have only tried the 32 bit versions of both and not sure if
> it is worth trying the 64bit version as I have heard that multimedia is a bit
> of a nightmare, i.e getting dvd playback and also playing the likes of wmv
> files. 
> 
> Is the 64bit version that much faster that it is worth trying?

for some apps yes, but not for 90% of what 90% of users do.

I get up to a 30% improvement in some apps, but they are all compiled from
scratch, and are NOT multimedia related. Day to day desktop computer use won't
see much gain in performance, but may do in compatability issues :-)

Brent Wood