Comment 24 for bug 585940

Ok, lets assume it is a marketing stuff. I guess a majority of new Ubuntu users firstly need an easy explanation about OS choice, and also 32 bit Ubuntu is after all easier to use for new Ubuntu users. And, yes, when I did use 32 bit Ubuntu version on 4 GB machine, there were no issues about RAM support, because PEA kernel was enabled automatically. I agree that those people who would benefit from 64 bit computing (video editing, encoding, ... etc.) would now what it is and will make their own decision. Also there are plenty of people who choice Linux just because they use older hardware, and they would need 32 bit. However it is a bit pity that the biggest effort still goes to 32 bit rather than 64 bit Ubuntu version, while at the same time mac OS x already benefits from 64 bit computing, because all of its applications were rewritten to take the full advantage of 64 bit computing.

p.s.
Some of you have mentioned difficulties with Adobe Flash. I would recommend not to install anything on non-native (32 bit flash) on 64 bit Ubuntu. There is adobe flash x64 beta, which doesn't need to be installed, you just need to copy one file (firefox plug-in from adobes labs site) into one of the file-system's folder (just google it, I'm sure you will find the solution). And who cares about flash anyway, apple just dumped flash and industry will follow the lead as usual. HTML5 works much better than flash, no crashes, smooth scrolling, one rich fully integrated mark-up language. Lets hope Firefox will be introduced to Ubuntu with HTML5 support, or Chromium will be tweaked to become standard Ubuntu browser.