sad day...

[my64]

After more hat 6 months of use 64 bits, I am going to migrate my Hoary 64 back to 32 bits.
At the beginning I had some problems that could be solved with video, sensors, etc... but now I have found too many "serious" problems that I can't live with:

- videos in wmv9 format can't be read nicely with sound,
- Canon I850 (my printer) driver does not work under 64 bits,
- Thunderbird exit when printing sometimes, and when forwarding mail in html,
- Open Office default (v1.1.3) can't print my documents,
- flash player not available so I have to chroot a mozilla, but then it does not interact directly with thunderbird (ok , I could have installed thunderbird as a 32 bits appli also),

And some other that I forgot.

I am now going to install a fresh new hoary-32 on a brand new sata disk, and hope that I will not be disapointed by the results !
Any suggestion ?

Olivier :roll:

[etitor]

- Thunderbird exit when printing sometimes, and when forwarding mail in html,
- Open Office default (v1.1.3) can't print my documents,

These two are the ones that really annoy me too. I didn't make the switch to 32-bit. I left Thunderbird for Evolution and I print the PDF that I produce from OpenOffice. Easier than a reinstall anyway!

[nrayever]

it's really sad to read this.... i hope u tried to ask for help in these forums. i can't really help with ur thunderbird problems. with ur cannon printer maybe it's a general problem with linux, 32bit os may not be the answer. problems with oO, i have them too, but i haven't really tried to solve them. but today i read in this forum that there is a hope for us!! finally for amd64's users!!!

in this thread there's a new program for playing flash and works with amd64 according to this thread

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=63839

maybe if u still have 64 bits os, give a try. that's what i'm doing right know!! if this program is the answer, pandora's box will be find!!

i hope later u might give another chance to 64bit os.

nrayever

[jdong]

I don't see the sadness... AMD64 works just as well in 32-bit mode as 64-bit mode. The minor performance differences do not show up until you are getting into multiple GB's of RAM.

[h17m4n]

I'm almost taking the same path. I'm only waiting to finish the download of a distro ISO(DVD). Why run 32-bit chroot when you could run a 32 bit distro and have all the things there. It'd be less of a hassle to set up a 64-bit chroot, which I doubt an user will ever need.

[amohanty]

I already took the path. Fortunately for me evolution solved the thunderbird problem and Oo did not create any problems initially, however the totem-xine/gstreamer problems were too much, especially since I rely on BBC video feeds for much of my news. I will definitely give it a try again with breezy and see hwo it goes.

AM

[AndrewStout]

Just to chime in, I've bailed on 64-bit and taken the 32-bit path, too. (this post from a brand new hoary 32-bit install.) Kind of a bummer, but I just don't have the time or patience to jump through all the extra hoops I gather are necessary to get full functionality in 64-bit [with chroot 32-bit, etc]. However, I have tried/am trying to set things up so that it will be easy to give 64-bit another shot when it's a little more mature.

So, my advice is this: if you're new to linux or don't have a lot of time to spend trying to get things to work, it's probably best to go with 32-bit for the time being. But to you 64-bit pioneers, please keep up the good work--I'm eager to migrate to 64-bit when you've settled the territory a bit more.

--A.

[my64]

I don't see the sadness... AMD64 works just as well in 32-bit mode as 64-bit mode. The minor performance differences do not show up until you are getting into multiple GB's of RAM.

You say that the Hoary-64 bits is useful only for big machines with multiple GB. Why ?
Don't there is a gain between 5 and 10% in favor of 64 bits achitecture compared to 32 ?

[mlomker]

Don't there is a gain between 5 and 10% in favor of 64 bits achitecture compared to 32 ?

Maybe, I'm not sure because I haven't tried to benchmark both versions. Why climb Mount Everest when there are smaller hills around to climb? Because it's there, of course.