Stop Apologizing For Linux!

Posted by freethinker on Jul 16, 2010 2:05 PM EDT
Ubuntu-User.com; By Marcel Gagne 		Mail this story
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Say you've got yourself a nice computer, be it tower, notebook, or whatever, and it has a dual core 64 bit chip. It's a pretty cool system and it came with Windows 7. After much hounding and friendly ribbing from your Linux-pushing friend, you decide you're going to load up Ubuntu. So you wander over to the Ubuntu desktop site to download your desktop Linux ISO where it tells you that the 64 bit edition isn't recommended for desktop use. You're confused. After all, your computer came with a 64 bit version of Windows. Isn't 64 bits better than 32? Why can't Linux run a 64 bit desktop?

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The 32 bit version isn't recommended either bigg 41 1,775 Jul 21, 2010 8:46 AM
Use PAE kernel to support 4gb+ RAM in 32bit linux. tmx 6 1,742 Jul 18, 2010 9:17 AM

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