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Question #76665 on Ubuntu changed:
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Tom posted a new comment:
i tried 64 bit Ubuntu and it was great, better than Mandriva by miles,
but then when i tried 32bit Ubuntu that was much better than the 64bit
version by quite a long way (maybe not miles but a fair way).  The 64bit
version only works on 64bit machines but the 32bit version works on
both.  32bit version of Ubuntu seems to have much larger repositories
with less fiddling around and in 8.04 and 8.10 seemed to work much more
easily, throwing up less weird niggles.  32bit version can access more
ram than i ever need and does all the multi-threading so i really don't
see what part of my machine is under-used by going with 32bit versions.
One core hovers around 20% usage with the other at about 50%, i only
seem to need about 1Gb of the 2Gb ram available and my swap doesn't get
used at all (or rarely).  I've tried opening as many heavy apps as
possible and managed to get both cores using 50% and ram usage up to
about 1.5Gb but i don't really need to watch 2 movies at the same time
while playing a game lol.

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