I ask this because 64bit OS’es seem to have problems that the 32bits ones don’t. Some stuff is yet not available for the 64 bits and don’t work well with them unless you do some tweaking which is some times more than you’d want to go through. I have experienced small but still annoying issues with OpenSuse and Ubuntu 64bit versions. Ubuntu will refuse to run Java at all. Frostwire will simply not work and Java because Java will not work. OpenSuse, however, does this but some of the codecs will not work. I’ve tried several things to get DVD and WMV codecs running in suse and haven’t been able to get them right (at least MP3s run). But the 32bit versions of these Operating Systems work just the way they should. So, are you happy with the way your OS works? Are you having any problems with it (No matter how small) that keep you from being 100% satisfied with it?
PD: Does anyone know if the guy who did the tutorials on thejemreport.com is doing them on other websites now? He would give a link to the Libdvdcss file and tell you how to compile it. This, so far, seems to be the best way to get things right on OpenSuse64.
Works fine for me and has done so for the past 2-3 years.
Firefox plugins was problematic at the beginning of 64-bit and I had to run 32-bit Firefox until the plugin wrapper was released. No problems playing flash with sound.
I hear there are problems with Java plugins, but very few website use Java plugins now so I don’t care. 64-bit Java (non-plugins) works fine.
Multimedia codecs work fine, I used the 1-click install. I should add I don’t view all media, but DVDs and MP4s work fine as do MP3s.
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> I ask this because 64bit OS’es seem to have problems that the 32bits
> ones don’t. Some stuff is yet not available for the 64 bits and don’t
> work well with them unless you do some tweaking which is some times more
> than you’d want to go through. I have experienced small but still
> annoying issues with OpenSuse and Ubuntu 64bit versions. Ubuntu will
> refuse to run Java at all. Frostwire will simply not work and Java
> because Java will not work. OpenSuse, however, does this but some of the
> codecs will not work. I’ve tried several things to get DVD and WMV
> codecs running in suse and haven’t been able to get them right (at least
> MP3s run). But the 32bit versions of these Operating Systems work just
> the way they should. So, are you happy with the way your OS works? Are
> you having any problems with it (No matter how small) that keep you from
> being 100% satisfied with it?
>
So far i am satisfied with openSUSE 10.3 64 bit. All multimedia starting
from mkv to mp3 work nicely (unless I have messed them up which I have done
a few times).
Well Ubuntu does not have as many “32-bit packages for 64-bit environments”… just forget it.
You can use all codecs if you merely install the 32-bit MPlayer in openSUSE. Nothing easier than that.
Well, I’m not trying to start a war on which operating system is better. Just that I find 64 Os’s to still be a bit rough around the edges. I’m happy with OpenSuse but not completely satisfied, same with Ubuntu. They’re both just a tiny bit from working flawlessly and I hope for the next release they both sort these things out. They’re both really good anyways and if I wasn’t playing videogames I’d have completely forgotten about windows already.
@Maclcolm
It’s giving me this problem:
RPM build errors:
user sam does not exist - using root
group sam does not exist - using root
user sam does not exist - using root
group sam does not exist - using root
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.54430 (%build)
What’s up with that user comment? I don’t get it. Really, I want to get this working. And is the videolan libdvdcss thing compatible with every other media player? I’ve read it only works in videolan.
I have a slight(you did say any)problem with flash-player10. I’m not sure though that its a 64 thing or not. My problem is that I dl’d the rpm now yast has flash plugin as installed but won’t let me uninstall it saying it’s not installed. I try konsole I’m told it’s installed but once again when I do a rm says it’s not there.
Staying in thread overall I’m happy with 64 I thought it was going to be way harder than it was. In fact for me the transition to KDE4
was harder!
I switched from 32-bit Ubuntu and Kubuntu to 64-bit OpenSUSE 11, and have been very, very pleased. Only irritations I have right now are with slightly flaky wireless, slow window resizing with desktop effects on, and microphone input. But I’ve always had problems with things like that on linux and KDE.
To put it simple and short: Yes, I am. I’ve switched all my machine to 64bit versions of openSUSE (7 of them - the other 2 are running some strange 32bit version of some winxp os :-)) some 3 years ago and never looked back. From server sw to desktop multimedia codecs and the like everything is there. And working.
I needed java for a site, so I was able to get it working on the 64 bit OpenSuse, but changing my Opera browser to the 32 bit version and I installed that. Then I installed the 32 bit Java and I could use Java.
It may not be the best solution to get Java working on 64 bit but it works for my needs.
Other then that it seems like everything else works under 64 bit.
My atheros wifi card is a tricky one, and I had to find the src rpm and build the rpm and install that to get it working good and then protect that so it won’t update to a newer madwifi that won’t work on my card.
Those are the only 2 issues I can think of off hand that I had to solve on this laptop. Other then that it works good enough
You can install 32-bit java on a 64-bit OS.
Furthermore I installed Firefox 32-bit because flash was not working properly at that time.
I have not encounteed any problem with software on Suse 11 64-bit as yet.
At present the advantages far out way any disadvantages.
I have VirtualBox 64-bit running with Windows XP 32-bit, 2000 32-bit and Vista 64-bit on top of Suse. It’s working great apart from USB.
the only problem I am having so far is being able to use the tweak test at DSL reports fire fox keeps wanting to install Java plugin which I cannot find and I have install JRE but there is a problem with Firefox. it is frustrating . other then that everything is good
I run Vista X64 for work on my laptop (cos I’m a .Net developer) and OpenSuse 11.0 X64 on my home desktop.
My laptop has more powerful hardware than my desktop and yet My desktop runs far smoother bar a small issue I seem to be having with the sata_sil driver for my pci sata controller (via for onboard one is fine).
I’ve got to say OpenSuseX64 is seemingly years ahead of VistaX64. It’s far more stable, even running from the factory repos. Has far nicer eye candy. I’ve had no issues with codecs or particularly any software. Seems to have great 32bit support in a 64bit environment, even wine runs better for older windows software than compatibility support on Vista.
I’ve got no real experience of Ubuntu other than a quick play with it as a dual boot on my previous work laptop (was running XP32) and some fiddling with a few mates Ubuntu machines to sort problems for them but that limited playing has tended me towards OpenSuse all the more. As far as *Nix is concerned I’m a FreeBSD guy at heart.
When I installed Vista on my desktop it survived for 3 months before it was replaced with OpenSuse10.3. Haven’t looked back since (thankfully a free Vista Business license from work).
I can’t believe how few 64 bit applications there are for Windows. I have about 6 gig of 64 bit apps installed on my vista work laptop and about 40 gig of 32 bit apps (can you say bloat).
Currently convincing work to let me run Server 2008 on my laptop as our tech guys are having a lot more success with it and it’s using far less resources than any of our people running Vista.
This just seems insane to me but it’s the truth of the matter.
I don’t play many games, though my old faves such as HL2 seem to run fine under wine.
Long live OpenSuse and I’m so pleased I made the shift to 64bit, HD video play back is sweet.
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