Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Dec 2005 09:47 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"When looking at desktop Linux by itself, any analysis of the subject quickly leads to this question: why do users choose one version over another? There are as many answers for this question as there are users to give them, but ultimately it should boil down to just a few key decisions which must be made. Considering this, it may be surprising to some people to find out how successful Ubuntu Linux has been relative to other distributions."
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2005-07-02
I've got the 64-bit version of Kubuntu installed on my amd64 laptop, and I've got sound, video, and the vast majority of programs working for it. For 32-bit only programs (i.e. Flash and some win32 codecs such as Quicktime/Sorensen), I've setup an ia32 chroot which works quite well.
I agree that amd64 is a bit more complicated, but not as much as you seem to indicate. In any case you can run the 32-bit version of Ubuntu on your amd64 machine if you like, so I fail to see what the problem is...