Re: Cryptic website (scares away potential users)

Hi,

that's not as illogical as it sounds, "amd64" has its name simply because it 
was invented by AMD. Intel had its own 64-bit implementation ("Itanium"), too, 
but it was so unsuccessful that they took the one from AMD.

Greetings,
Erik

On Samstag, 28. Oktober 2017 19:47:43 CEST Henrik Rosenø wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Thank you for your mail(s)!
> My personal conclusion is that since my PC uses Windows 64-bit, I should
> download the 'amd64'-version. Which is kind of illogical since I am
> quite sure I don't have a CPU from AMD. I DID have an AMD CPU 10 years
> ago...
> 
> Henrik Rosenø
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > On Samstag, 28. Oktober 2017 15:32:23 CEST SZÉPE Viktor wrote:
> >> I think if you are installing an operating system,
> >> you may now what "CPU architecture" is.
> > 
> > not neccessarily. When installing a non-Linux OS, there's no need to know
> > what a CPU architecture is, because they only support one or two of them.
> > The others even use other labels like "32-bit" and "64-bit" instead of
> > "i386" and "amd64" and it usually boils down to how old your computer is
> > (whether it supports AMD64) and how much RAM you want to use (4 GB or
> > more).
> > 
> >> Idézem/Quoting Henrik Rosenø <[email protected]>:
> >>> How on Earth am I to know which to choose??
> > 
> > Study computer science? ;-) Jokes aside, the page is missing a statement
> > like "if in doubt, use i386" or an overview what of these is to be
> > installed on which machine type (32-bit PC → i386, 64-bit PC → amd64,
> > pre-Intel Mac → PowerPC, Nintendo64 → mips and so on).
> > 
> >>> This puts the Debian website in the 100% nerd/geek category where the
> >>> rest of us just walk away.
> > 
> > It certanly is, that paragraph "what is an operating system" on the home
> > page looks like a joke against the rest of the website. So, thank you for
> > your input!
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Erik

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