I doubled my bits!! (ie: go 64, it's safe!!)

[captive]

Hi!
Yesterday, after 3 month testing hardy 32bit, and after a try gone really bad with gutsy 64bit (screwed filesystem, data loss..), I decided to go 64.
And I can say that on my setup everything runs smoothly and seems to be really more responsive than my -server kernel on 32bit hardy (the only one that makes 4gb available..).
I installed flash and java with no problems, skype, google earth, rosegarden, virtualbox and whatever I had on 32bit..
My webcam doesn't want to work under mercury, but it's something with its libs, 'cause skype video call works perfectly.
I even solved the annoying "long login time" bug I had with compiz on hardy & gutsy!!!
What can I say?
People, go 64!!
It may not be perfect, but it just works as it should at 99.999%.. And the more we test and use it, the more bugs will be discovered and fixed.

[thenetduck]

I just converted to 64 bit aswell. I love it, however flash sucks as always.

[derickcyril]

It works fine. But I find Firefox hanging at times, when I try to close multiple tabs and select 'Quit' option. But it is more stable , I think.:)

[FredB]

I just converted to 64 bit aswell. I love it, however flash sucks as always.

Well, you can use swfdec if you dislike nspluginwrapper + flash from adobe ;)

[JoWilly]

I just converted to 64 bit aswell. I love it, however flash sucks as always.

uhh ?

I just did a fresh install of hardy x64. Started firefox, went to youtube. Clicked on the firefox tab requesting to install additional plugins, selected adobe flash..... and voilà, everything works fine.

What problem are you having ?

[ButtonMasher]

Thanks for the encouragement! I just built my first computer with an AMD64 chip and was really wondering whether it was worth it or not. I think my fresh install of 8.04 will be the 64 bit version. :)

[alanandhispc]

I also took the plunge with the 64 bit version for hardy, i'm very impressed, thunderbird & firefox seem to be much faster and more responsive.
I haven't noticed any issues in the 24 hours i've had it running (not constant)

I also have a warm fuzzy feeling about using what my processor can handle, which i think is the best bit really. :)



Alan

[kutjara]

I've found 64 bit Hardy (which I've been running since Alpha 2 or so) to be excellent. The only real problem I've had is with wireless and getting NDISWrapper to work with my Broadcom card (never resolved the problem of getting WPA to work). So I switched to a card with a Ralink chipset and had it working in two minutes.

Other than that, I'm very pleased with the great job the devs have done on this release.

[bro]

I'm not having too much fun with hardy 64-bit at all. It's the first time I use the 64bit version of Ubuntu. My streaming video stalls or has annoying hickups all the time where the cpu load goes up to 100% for several seconds. My girlfriend running 32 bit doesn't have this (she has a few other problems though).

Also I've had 3 hard crashes (completely unresponsive) in one week. In general my harddisk sometimes just starts spinning. I disabled tracker bit that didn't do it. My CPU load jumps to 100% from time to time, might be a firefox issue I don't know, but the system can't be used then for several seconds (not even the mouse).

Are these the benefits of 64 bit or is Hardy not what it should be? In which case I'll go back to feisty. Anybody a clue?
These bugs seem so general I wouldn't even know under what to report them or search for solutions.

btw, I'm running a dell D830 with no proprietary drivers needed at all.

[abds]

Hi,

So i just installed the 64-bit version... And am really regretting it. :S.

When I input my user and password, it starts to load, then it just takes me back to the login screen.

I cant switch to the command like. When I press ctrl + alt + 1, it just gets stuck.

Finally managed to log in using the failsafe gnome session.

I thought this was supposed to work fine... :(

Any help??