Hi. On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 08:44:28AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have two underlying questions: > 1. As everything I currently use runs fine, what would I gain by switching > to amd64 flavor?
Short term - you'll gain nothing. Everything will work exactly the same, barring third-party software (if any). Long term - Debian is one of the last major distributions that keeps i386 supported. Sooner or later Debian will follow the current trend of dropping i386. It won't happen in bullseye though. > 2.What 32 bit utilities are there to identify the hardware capabilities of > a particular machine? If you mean, "how do I check if my Intel/AMD CPU has that 64-bit capability", then it's: lscpu | grep -w lm Otherwise your question is too broad. Reco
