32 or 64 bit Mandriva

[Shlomo Solomon]

I'm about to upgrade my Mandriva 2010 to 2011 and want to decide if I should 
go to 64 bit. 
I know that years ago, when the first 64 bit versions came out there were alot 
of problems (drivers, flash, Firefox ...). In any case, I never bothered to 
check each time I updated and stayed with 32.
Today, I Googled the problem and found conflicting opinions. Some say no 
problems, others mention Firefox or video cards, and some even claim 32 is 
faster than 64 because of smaller memory pointers. My guess is that the 
pointer thing is really not significant, but I may be wrong.
To be clear, this is a desktop machine, not used for development or 
programing, so compilers, etc aren't relevant. I also don't have >4 Gb of 
memory, so the memory addressing advantage of 64 bit is also not relevant.

Opinions are welcome (especially, not not only) from Mandriva users.

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Shlomo Solomon
http://the-solomons.net
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