Re: Debian 32-bit or 64-bit

[Dan Hart <dan@agapehart.com>]

From my experience, unless you are doing major graphics/video or audio 
editing, 32bit should suffice...but as another thread indicated, 
evaluate all your apps and see what will be beneficial in the long run.

Dan

On 02/04/2016 01:49 PM, Boris wrote:
> Am 04.02.2016 um 20:32 schrieb Stefan Monnier:
> > > I have been using Debian in my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 from 2007 onwards.
> > > I have the latest upgrade Stretch/sid on it.
> > > This laptop has Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40 GHz and was having
> > > 2GB RAM. But this week I have upgraded the RAM to 4GB and replaced the HDD
> > > with a new Intel SSD 120GB. So which version 32-bit or 64-bit do you suggest
> > > to install in this system ?
> > FWIW, on my own T61-with-SSD (tho with 8GB of RAM), I use the 32bit
> > version of Debian, tho with a 64bit kernel (i.e. aptitude install
> > linux-image-amd64).
> >
> > But to a large extent, whether you use the 64bit or the 32bit version
> > doesn't make any difference whatsoever.  E.g. I don't think it's worth
> > going through a re-install just to go from one to the other.
> Hej,
>
>
> have a look to your applikations!
> If you - for instance - are going to use Android Studio for development,
> you should use the 64bit environmentm because on 32bit systems some
> features are not being supported in near future (device emulation).
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Boris