On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Jamie Dobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu but > find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level of > customization that I can do with it.
Well then, welcome back. <SNIP> > Also I'm not running at Athlon X2 system, ifs there any _real_ advantage > to running AMD64 or should I still to x86? I run an amd64 as my desktop system. It' started as my 3rd machine so at the time it was 64-bit for fun. today I just live with it. There are some limitations on the 64-bit platform with web-based media, but beyond that I find 32 and 64-bit machines to be pretty similar in performance. I run old windows games under Wine on 64-bit and they work OK. I think Flash and Java have been the two larger issues for me over time. A few win32codec issues also. However if I wanted to get around those I could probably do something in a chroot but I'm not that motivated. If I was building a desktop machine today I wouldn't build 64-bit. I see no advantage and a few disadvantages, but either way you go you'll probably be fine. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
