[Klug-general] Enlightenment - finally

[James Morris]

I've not really had a great deal of problems with 64bit desktops. But
I use XFCE so my desktop is (how I want it) simpler. I run into
trouble a while back using Arch testing. An upgrade to Xorg had an
incompatible API for the (at the time, maybe still) existing Nvidia
driver. As Arch is a rolling release distro, there wasn't actually a
great deal (for me) to gain from using testing so I downgrade a few
packages and carried on. It caused me to try out the Nouveau driver
which seemed fine until I decided to play Minecraft (implemented in
Java) which crashed out on login for which no answer could be found -
until I switched back to using Nvidia again. Otherwise, I've not had
any 64bit related issues (and I'm not entirely convinced these are
64bit related issues either). Besides, 64bit isn't exactly new
anymore.

James.




On 18 October 2011 15:04, Michael E. Rentell
<michael.rentell at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hmm, some interesting advice here and from others too - thanks. I've a mind
> to try Mint 64-bit and see what that's like using standard Gnome. My setup
> has an nvidia graphics card and both Ubuntu and Mint have advised me to use
> the recommended non-free driver which I've done.
>
> If the problems persist I shall have to install 32-bit and see how it goes.
> Pity really because 64-bit Natty worked fine for me.
>
> Baffled as usual.
>
> MikeR
>
> On 18/10/11 14:58, Dan Attwood wrote:
>>
>> Karl makes a good point. Every time I've tried the 64bit version on a
>> desktop machine I end up going back to 32bit after a while. Servers is a
>> different, I run 64bit on them without a hitch, but then they have no
>> gui and a simpler set of apps.
>>
>> Oneric is supposed to be better with 32 bit libs on a 64 bit machine
>> now, but reading through the release notes even they don't
>> seem entirely confident that it's as good as it could be
>>
>>
>>
>>
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