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I also read somewhere that Linux users prefer Nvidia over ATI because of driver issues? I was curious if this was a valid point or not.

Greensystemsgo

recently with the newer cards this issue has been fixed because ati has not began actuall creating drivers for linux, before only nvidia and nvidia enthusiasts did that.

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Silly Question: When I used the Fedora Image Loader for my USB Jumpdrive I first pushed the image of x86_64 to it and this seemed to fail multiple times during the installation. Never did figure out if it was a conflict with all the USB devices I had plugged in or the Hard Drive I was using.

Anyway upon reading that x86_64 was primarily for AMD's I used i686 instead...does this mean I'm using 32-bit instead of 64-bit? If so, what does that impact? I keep reading random Linux Forum posts about issues with using 64-bit on a Linux install.

cinajohn

The 64 bit version of most distros are called AMD64 simply because AMD pioneered 64 bit cpu. Today you can run an 'AMD64' distro on any 64 bit chip, including your E8400.

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Crap so the i686 I installed is running at 32-bit right now?

I can't remember if that only affects how much RAM your system could utilize or if it was tied into your CPU's performance or not. Also, I wonder why the x86_64 install kept crashing when I was doing the Live install from my USB Drive?

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Yes, i686 is 32 bit. 32 bit os's can address up to 4GB RAM so you are under that.

Can't really tell you off the top of my head why the _64 install was crashing, sorry.

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I was reading people were having issues using 64 bit on a lot of packages/apps/whatever - do you know if this is the case and whether or not 32-bit OS impacts my CPU's performance under Linux?

-Thanks

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As far as packages, etc., being problematic, I think that is for the most part thing of the past. There did used to be a good amount of work getting 32 bit software to work on 64 bit os's but I don't really notice much of that any more.

Performance difference between 32 and 64 bit os's is not exactly an easy debate. Results vary in real life application to say the least. Theoretically, yes 64 bit should be 'faster', how that translates into daily desktop operation is well, debatable.

So, for instance, if you installed a 64 bit os, then a 32 bit on the same hardware, would you tell the difference easily...I doubt it.

Hope you enjoy your first foray into the GNU/Linux world, stick with it.

And btw, nice catch. I know people who have seen the movie many times and do not recognise the avatar

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LoL the movie is awesome.

Anyway I'm gonna run the Fedora build on the spare 160GB I got in my system right now ... if I can manage to get my games working properly I'll just end up using my 74GB 10,000 Raptor for Fedora and move everything else over.

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