Has Everyone Forgotten 3.01?

[TBABill]

I went with 3.2 from 2.6.5 because Gnome 3 is the future ahead unless a new, better DE comes along. I loved Gnome 2 but not sticking with it because everything based on Debian will soon carry Gnome 3 so I figure I may as well adapt. Thee did a great job with 3.2 and uses far less resources than 3.0 (not sure about 3.01). I also had quirky wireless even with 2.6.5, Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 11.10 and Mint 12. Ultimate Edition 3.2 resolved it and my wireless is faster than on Win 7 now.

[dougal]

synirgy87 - what do you like about the 64-bit that 32-bit doesn't give? I have always been told that if you don't have a reasonable amount of RAM over 4Gb it ain't worth the effort of using.

Just curious about people's reasons for using one or the other.

[synrgy87]

fair question, the 64bit os have always seemed to run snappier on my system and have just felt better hard to explain, 3.0.1 runs great but 12.04 64bit again feels fater , i run on 8GB of ram and like to make use of it.

i like forward motion and just feel its better running 64bit os then 32bit with pxe.

[TBABill]

Phoronix compared Ubuntu kernels, one each of 32 bit, 32 bit PAE and 64 bit. 64 bit won in every comparison and PAE lost in nearly every one in terms of speed. I run 64 on all my machines capable of using it.