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  1. Bug #585940
  2. Comment #57

Comment 57 for bug 585940

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) wrote : Re: Text reads "not recommended" for 64-bit

Its just causing confusion and a LOT of users asking time and time again.

Its most likely because 32bit runs on most 64bit CPUs due to 32bit emulation in the chips. Some manufacturers (Lexmark for example) do not make debs for their hardware in 64bit. Some games are also only 32bit (Dark Lore Horizon is one example here) but they can be ran using ia32-libs but then the user must manually grab debs for .so file to put into /usr/lib32

Yes what they say is kinda right but it's causing a bit stir and irking new users which is what Ubuntu is aimed at. Can we stop this nonesense.