Favorite linux distro, version 3 i think Options

[Maccabee]

Before I ever install a distro I research it to make sure im not wasting my time. Everyones ultimate goal when distro shopping is something light, good looking, user friendly, usually its best to have something with some kind of community and something you like the feel of!

For a long time i didnt think about steering away from gnome, and I didnt like kde cause normally it was more ugly but when i saw kde distros they looked more complete and I just liked the feel. I tried mandriva and it was a lot faster than ubuntu and I like it a lot. I looked at other distros like it and the top distros that I find that were very similiar were

mandriva
openSUSE
linux mint

I think i have decided those are my favorite three kde distros and Ive been liking kde better then gnome so my favorite distro is...

Linux mint!

I like the look and feel and its fast and comes with codecs(doesnt really matter) preinstalled and even though in the end many distros are so similiar I just decided I it was my favorite!

I understand if you say "tldr". Just tell me your current favorite distro.

[Maccabee]

I dont understand what the difference is between 64 and 32 computers? I understand 64 bit computers have the ability to run 64bit os's and programs but besides that whats the point/ Is it any better or faster?

[mipadi]

I dont understand what the difference is between 64 and 32 computers? I understand 64 bit computers have the ability to run 64bit os's and programs but besides that whats the point/ Is it any better or faster?

It has to do with the architecture of a processor.

Every processor has a "word size", which is the maximum size of data that can be handled by the processor at once. In other words, the processor moves data around in word-sized chunks. So a 32-bit processor can deal with 32 bits at a time, whereas a 64-bit processor can deal with 64 bits at a time.

Particularly this affects memory operations. In a processor, every slice of memory must be "addressable", i.e., there has to be a way to represent each slice as a number in the processor. 32-bit processors, therefore, can address up to 2^32 slots of memory, whereas a 64-bit processor can address up to 2^64 slots.