openSUSE Forums: Install 32-bit with PAE or 64-bit?

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Install 32-bit with PAE or 64-bit? Dec 12th 2012, 15:53 Hi there! I'm young on this forum, but I'm a long time Linux SysAdmin and OpenSource Developer. I used openSUSE for a long time but in the last few years, for work needs, have been using Windows and Linux only on VMs (as workstation/desktop) and servers (work, without X, of course). I know this is an old question, that 64-bit performs better on apps which use more them 4GB of all Memory (RAM, GPU, etc), but there's still one thing that I think it's unclear, or at least for me. For people who have a computer or a laptop, like I do, with an Intel i5-2520M and 8GB of RAM, with an Intel HD 3000, which use the computer mosty for software development, system administration, watch movies and tv shows, listen to music and internet in general and maybe one or two older or basic games, is it really needed 64-bit version of a Linux Distro, which we know unfortunately has some issues and difficulties compared to 32-bit (sometimes are simple things, like MTP for navigating smartphones/tablets)? Or 32-bit with PAE kernel is enough for those situations, even though it processes slower memory transactions for big processes? What do you think/know about this? Thanks a lot.

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