New computer - x64 or x32?

[Tyler Aviss]

Noticed this comment after my post. I haven't seen the nspluginwrapper
solution before, but it looks rather interesting. Thanks for pointing
this one out!

I guess the only point of conjecture then would be various apps that
haven't been ported to the 64-bit world (and those are decreasing
every day) and the possibility of 64-bit apps having a bigger memory
footprint (depending on how they were coded).

On 9/1/07, Jamon Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> > I've got a new computer with a AMD Athlonâ„¢ 64 X2 Dual-Core chip in it,
> > and I'm wondering if I should put a 64-bit Linux on it, or just stick to
> > a 32-bit system.  Pros?  Cons?
>
> How much memory? Anything over 4gb, I wouldn't hesitate to use 64bit,
> PAE or not. What distribution? What will you use the box for? How much
> time would you want to spend setting up 32bit flash and java plugins
> (pretty easy actually).
>
> I guess my question is really, why not 64bit? 32 bit flash with
> nspluginwrapper, and java have a 32 and 64 bit version of their jre/jdk
> too, the rest should be pretty much the same as your current 32 bit os.
> And if you're doing any multimedia work the difference is more apparent.
>
> Jamon
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