Re: [PLUG] Looking for help with Chrome on lubuntu 14.04 trusty i386

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:09 PM, john boris <jborissr@gmail.com> wrote:

I was worried about that. I couldn't find the specs. thanks for this info. I guess I am not upgrading then. I don't want to experiment. I am testing chromium today with gotomeeting. If that works I lucked out. Otherwise I will have to try another way to do this. Probably have to go to the iPad for those rare times. Just another device I have to keep in my bag.

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Keith C. Perry <kperry@daotechnologies.com> wrote:
Doesn't the D620 have 32 bit proc?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url="">

http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/dell-latitude-d620-review-pics-specs/

Is so, you can't go to a 64 bit OS.

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On May 18, 2016 10:26 AM, john boris <jborissr@gmail.com> wrote:
Rich
Thanks. The only drawback to the 610 is it ram limitations. I got this one from Nonprofit Tecnical in Center City before they closed their thrift store. Cost me $160 but it has a 250gb jd and 2gb ram. It is light enough for me and has worked great until now

On Wednesday, May 18, 2016, Rich Mingin (PLUG) <plug@frags.us> wrote:
Google search for "latitude D620 Ubuntu 16.04" only got a very few hits, this was most relevant that I saw on a quick skim:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/ubuntu-16-04-lts-will-not-shutdown-4175579011/

And since he says everything works fine except shutdown, and someone else in the thread says it sounds like a one-off bad install, I think you're clear.

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:10 AM, john boris <jborissr@gmail.com> wrote:
Before I end up trashing my laptop does anyone on the list have a pointer or know that lubuntu 64bit will work on a latitude d620?

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Rich Mingin (PLUG) <plug@frags.us> wrote:
While they were shipping 32bit Windows, they weren't shipping 32bit hardware. Switching bitness, even on Windows, isn't brain surgery, just requires services of an expert, or at least a moderately skillful IT goon. You can even backup user state, apps and all, and restore it after the reinstall, and most everything will work, thanks to lots of man hours sunk into the infrastructure.

32bit hardware is rapidly becoming obsolete, but no one has shipped 32bit hardware lately, it's been quite a while for everything but the nearly-disposable very-low-end, Atoms and Celerons and such. All of the Core iX lines are 32/64, and the preceding Core2 generation were all 64bit. Very-low-end aside, the last 32bit only CPUs Intel shipped were Pentium 4s, and not even the late models of those.

If you're still on 32bit hardware, current low end is worth a look, you'll get much higher performance at a minimal cost.

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com> wrote:
Unfortunately, Chrome is the gateway to several multimedia-type services on linux, and the end of 32-bit Chrome is rendering a lot of machines unusable for those.

I posted last week about a new Dell 2-in-1, which I bought because my trusty laptop with its 32-bit Pentium M CPU, running the version of Mint based on 14.04, is finally functionally obsolete for me. It seems that 2016 is shaping up to be the year when 32 bit computing can no longer be considered mainstream.

The big PC manufacturers were still delivering desktops and laptops with 32-bit versions of Windows up until fairly recently. A lot of consumers bought them not knowing the difference, and some who did chose 32-bit since it offered better compatibility with older software (games, mostly). I wonder whether these consumers are going to start running into trouble as software makers drop 32-bit versions?

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