On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Mateusz Stachowski <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Until the Precise I was using only 32bit Ubuntu. With these release I've decided to try 64bit and made a clean install (besides the Home > folder which is the same for 3+ years). > > Aside from not been able to build the 32bit version of Wine without chroot environment I've found the 64bit flavor of Ubuntu to be much > slower. I don't know what's causing it but it's really much slower than the 11.10 32bit that I was using before. > > There are also problems with programs nuvolaplayer is even more crashy and very slugish (that didn't exist on 32bit). Flash Player is just > unusable but I could use it on 32bit with much less crashes. > > > That's my hardware configuration: > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 > > Distro: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS > > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ > 2 cores/threads > 2300.00 MHz > > RAM: GeIL 2 GB DDR II 800 Dual Ultra CL4 Why would you want to install a 64 bit OS on this system? You might not gain anything, and (based on your experience) actually have a slower system. I would install a 32 bit version of 12.04 on this system until you can put 4 GB or more of RAM. James
