Preparing Ubuntu 10.04 new install - 32 or 64 bit? Please suggest.

[Juan R. de Silva]

On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:04:56 -0300, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Juan R. de Silva
> <juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:56:13 -0300, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Larry Vaden <vaden at texoma.net> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Juan R. de Silva
>>>> <juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:27:31 -0500, Larry Vaden wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Juan R. de Silva
>>>>>> <juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm going to install Ubuntu 10.04. When I get to the Ubuntu
>>>>>>> Download page and selecte the desired version I am offered by
>>>>>>> default "32-bit (recommended)" option.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Live life in the fast lane, download Natty 64 bit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unity?  Thank you, NO. I'd rather use Lucid 32 bit then.
>>>>
>>>> I think you can get any of the other Ubuntu-based distros and still
>>>> report bugs in Natty for the benefit of the community.
>>>>
>>>> regards/ldv
>>>
>>> Natty Alpha is (of course) far from stable and Unity still sucks. Go
>>> Maverick, that really works fine and 64
>>
>> I've just looked on Maveric's downloads. As far as I see the only one
>> image available of 64 bit is for AMD. Am I missing something?
> 
> AMD 64 is the "nickname" it works for both Intel and AMD.

Aha...  Then the same implies to 10.04 AMD64 image and I'm just fine.  
The image name is quite misleading though.