For the past few months, I had been trying out Windows 7 exclusively on my laptop. After the intial good impression, I started noticing the cracks. The system would become super slow after a day or two, which is typical of a windows system doing alot of computing. I am still not sure what is the actual reason but it takes ages to fire up simple applications.
Since Google decided to put Chrome for linux in beta and it has some mixed reviews (compared to Windows version) I decided to go over back to linux (that was actually in December, but writing about it now) but this time on 64 bit. Working with 64 bit has been problematic for me in the past as one would need to figure out lots of things. Fortunately lots of the issues from my previous experience with 64 bit ubuntu have been now resolved.
The first problem I ran into was bad performance of Spotify sound under Wine. This was easily solved by moving to wine-1.2 instead of wine. Another problem that I encountered was crashes of browser when I started an Adobe Air application after I started the browser. This is also solved by first starting the Adobe Air app and then starting the browser.
I also used Adobe’s 64 bit pre-release version of flash which solves alot of issues of dancing around 32 bit libraries on 64 bit system. I have actually forgotten about lot’s of issues I fixed during the move, for which I need to put a note to sel: blog when its happening, not weeks later.
I currently use Chromium under Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackpole and it works fine.Gonna run Windows 7 Pro through VMWARE.
Vusal, yes, it works fine now, didn't so much before.
I've been using Vista 64 bit with 4 GB of ram on my home and office system for quite a few months now. I'm happy and it performs very well. I've only played around a little with Windows 7 x64 though I did use it exclusively for a week while my Vista system underwent hardware upgrades. Windows 7 x64 is good and runs great when it is started but after running for a while it slows down though in all fairness I've only tested it using 1 GB of ram.
I just moved to Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit on my Dell E6400 laptop. Works pretty well so far!
Flash does seem very CPU-intensive, though; I wonder if this is due to 32-bit emulation. I’ll try that 64-bit flash plugin.
Cheers,
-Adam