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Mark Jose wrote: > On Friday 25 May 2007 19:51, Josh Davies wrote: > >> Tom Potts wrote: >> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbf9tOGwno >>> Tom te tom te tom >>> >> Ooo nice. I will be installing Vista x64 tomorrow, hopefully that will >> be OK. Got to get it on my RAID0 setup though, I found x64 drivers, but >> I am not sure how well they work. Should be nice and speedy with 4GB ram. >> ;) >> > > Seriously Josh, why? Windows I can understand; Windows Vista less so, but I > can see that it is all that will be available before long; but the 64 bit > version? I would suspect you will have some real issues with drivers for 64 > bit Vista. 64 bit Linux still is not perfect (think driver issues, plugins > for those who like them etc) - and that has had a lot more real world testing > than any 64 bit Microsoft OS. I have a 64 bit system - have had since they > came out, but my own experiences with 64 bit Linux made me revert back pretty > quickly to 32 bit. Things may be better now - it is a year or two since I > tested Kanotix 64 bit and Kubuntu 64 bit - but I doubt it. Game libs I found > particularly frustrating as a gamer. > > Mark > > Just giving it a go, I will be dual booting with XP so as not to put my PCs funtionality completely in Vista's hands. I have a friend who has been running 64bit Vista since it came out in RC, and he has managed to game on it happily. Apprently if you turn Vista's "prefetching service" on, with 4GB RAM is it FAST. So yea... might as well give it a try. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html