Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>>>> So what is recommended? There are as such no special use cases to go 64bit
>>>> for me.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why 32? ... Flash, win32 codecs, probably Wine but not sure as it has
>>> been years...
>>
>> 64-bit WINE worked for me. Even for running 32-bit WoW. (Though I was
>> running a multilib profile. Uncertain if that had an impact.)
>>
>>>
>>> Why 64? ... Virtualization...
>>>
>>> Depends on what you want and/or need.
>>
>> IMO, it's worth the 'overhead' to run 64-bit, if only for the greater
>> number of GPRs and other architectural improvements. There's honestly
>> a lot of good stuff in x86-64 beyond the larger address space. The
>> increased address space also helps long-lived programs avoid address
>> space fragmentation.
>>
>> --
>> :wq
>>
>
> Agreed. I only boot 64-bit here, but different than all you
> heavy-lifters my machines are 98% stable, 2% ~amd64. That said I do
> have problems not only with Flash on my machine with 2 Nvidia cards
> but also with OpenGL. However none of that on any other 64-bit
> machines.
>
> As for the win32 codec stuff I use Windows VMs to watch any stuff I
> want to watch, and a fairly trim Gentoo 32-bit VM so that I can run
> Linux apps to convert certain Windows format files, etc.

FWIW, I run 98% (or thereabouts ;) ) stable, too.

No trouble with Flash on either nVidia or AMD. No trouble playing
Diablo III or WoW on WINE with apps-emu/playonlinux and nVidia.
Recently switched to an AMD GPU. No trouble with Flash there, either.
Haven't tried WoW, but I've got lots of weird artifacts in Diablo III
which don't make the game unplayable, but might to a less-tolerant
person.

This is all on an amd64 system. I don't know what it's like in 32-bit
x86 on Gentoo, as I've never run that form of Gentoo; I let multilib
handle things there.

-- 
:wq