Me too. Somewhere in December I'll be installing Slackware on an ARM board, hopefully.

Regards.

Unlike the MCA polls, these polls do not have an end date.

--jeremy

Out of curiosity, what is your "Other"?

--jeremy

No, that has nothing to do with the IPv4/IPv6 switch (network addresses). You can use larger memory arrays on 64 bit systems with less overhead on smaller memory arrays (>892MB), but additional to that x86_64 also has larger and more registers than x86, so that many programs will have a performance gain, but not all. On a PC with "normal" usage (browsing the web, playing music/videos, doing some office work) you won't see performance differences, but for some other tasks the performance increases are huge.

On the first post I missed many Linux devices which I use everyday. So instead of editing the original post I will add them below.

Synology 213 ARM
Roku 3 ARM (Some of the older models used MIPS)
WD Live MIPS
Sony Bravia Blu Ray Player MIPS
Vizio Blu Ray Player MIPS
Chromecast MIPS?
AVerMedia Game Capture HD MIPS
Netgear Router WNDR4500-100NAS MIPS
Netgear Router WNR3500L MIPS
Zytel DSL Modem MIPS
Cisco Home Router MIPS
8 Trendnet Switches MIPS?
4 Security Cameras W/built in web server MIPS
HP Printer MIPS
Epson Printer MIPS?

I have been using x86 in Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04. Recently I purchased a new PC with an Intel CI5 cpu and a Gigabyte motherboard. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. It is a lot faster than the 32bit version. I use Clementine and have found that the sound quality is much better than in the 32bit version. However I have some issues with it. I have installed the GNOME Classic desktop and have found that Alt+Tab does not work. My other issue is that it is stuck on 1024x768 screen resolution. It does not read the Intel graphics on the motherboard. I dual boot with Windows 7 Ultimate which reads the Intel graphics without any problems.

I have far fewer machines than a lot of people here at only two:
A desktop with a FX 8120 running Debian Sid 64 bit and Slackware 64 bit sometimes,
An EEEPC running Debian Sid 32 bit since it's a single-core Atom.

I hope to expand that with a Pi soon when time/money/everything else permits.

A friend made the move from 32 bit Ubuntu to 64 bit and found the performance increase staggering -- when I mentioned that the extra instructions alone could account for a lot of it he swore at me for not telling him sooner. The larger registers and addressable memory of AMD64 may not mean it's faster than i386 by default but the fact most i386 distros and programs are compiled for a limited instruction set mean if you've a 64 bit processor you ought to find a 64 bit OS faster.

I guess I could see for someone with computers on a very tight budget (money\time\whatever) but the (entertainment\*) value vs coast is capacious. Most people already have the screen, speakers, mini-USB-cable (e.g.) WiFi-thumb-drive, etc but good portable ones can be cheap too, along with breadboards and doodads+++

No way there is only 1 android phone at home.
And there are many people using raspberry pi.

I have, in reality, PC's with 2 to 6 cores, 64 bits, but I've not yet found a flavor of Linux that I like in 64bits. I'm a Pupy Linux lover, and don't want to swap it for a blown up distro, but the 64bits Puppies are a bit limited. I'll be changing soon, but with a 32 bits option, an essential for me, as 64bits isn't totally adopted, as yet
I've also a Raspi, but it's not yet in action. I'll install Puppy on that too, as it's only around 100Mb for the distro complete

Fatdg64 a derivative of Puppy Linux, at a whole whopping 200 and some megabytes.

I am curious, what are you missing in 64 bit distros?

maybe back in the day\less-apps http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...use-a-64bit-os

only 32 if I have to

I do have a x86_64 cpu but I prefer to use x86-32 distros. And I use ARM for my android smartphone.

Even I have a 64-bit cpu since 4 years, however I've only used pure 32-bit Linux because this laptop supports only 4 GB of max. RAM. And I anyways found no compelling reason to use 64 bit OS with 3 GB of RAM it came with.

Regards.