[Klug-general] Enlightenment - finally

[James Morris]

I misread what Dan said as about 64bit systems in general, rather than
what he actually said.
James.

On 18 October 2011 15:36, James Morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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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