Better 32 or 64 bit?

[Emanuele_Z]

Hi guys,

I'm going to upgrade to 9.10 (I have 9.04 but I plan to format and re-install).
What do you recommend? 32 or 64 bit?
Naturally I have 2 GB Ram, so that's not a mandatory upgrade.
I usually develop and compile with gcc/g++ and OpenGL/GLSlang...
I'm more of a kind dev user, but I usually prefer not to compile the big apps but install via apt-get (don't want to mess with configs etc etc).

What do you suggest? Most of all why? (I'm downloading the 32 bit version right now...)

Cheers,

[NoaHall]

64 bit. Always in my book.

[RiceMonster]

512 bit is where it's at.

[gn2]

Just as 11 is more than 10, 64 is more than 32 therefore better.

[The Funkbomb]

32bit is fine. The main advantage of 64bit is that you can use more than 4gb of ram. One might need this for rendering a movie or model. Other than that, 2gb is plenty and will run on 32bit fine.

[dizee]

I haven't really had any problems since using 64-bit. Particularly Karmic, very solid and stable so far.

Flash works well. Even though the 64-bit flash is an "alpha".

That said there's not that huge a case to switch either. Supposed to eat up more RAM, but I suppose compiling should be faster.

Just as 11 is more than 10, 64 is more than 32 therefore better.

That used to be the case for games consoles back in the day. 16 bit > 8 bit

[naveen8888]

Not necessarily. Sometimes 64 bit is a bit unstable

[jward3010]

Overall, the advantage of 64 bit over 32 is the amount of memory it addresses, secondly it's the up and coming CPU architecture and more than likely 32-bit will be slowly phased out. So it's worth if you have it to install 64-bit editions of Ubuntu, Windows 7, Slackware, whatever!

[NoaHall]

Not necessarily. Sometimes 64 bit is a bit unstable

No, it's not.

[Emanuele_Z]

Ok, I see, but why?
What is the reason of this?
I've read that flash doesn't properly work yet and wma 9 don't play...

(now I'll DL the 64bit version as well... will take 10 minutes.. )