I've been using Ubuntu 12.10 for about a year and half now on my laptop with an intel processor. When I installed it I was dumb enough to commit the mistake of downloading a amd 64bit version of the OS instead of an intel 64bit version. It actually works ok sometimes, but I think that I might be forcing my processor since it's using the wrong drivers, and Ubuntu sometimes randomly freezes when I have just few programs open and I end up having to force restart it. My question is, is it possible to upgrade to a intel 64bit version of Ubuntu, without loosing most of the programs I have installed and personal files? Thanks in advance.
asked Mar 9, 2014 at 16:59
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AMD were first to produce a commercial 64bit CPU architecture aimed at normal users rather than the server market. As a result, amd64 has come to be used to mean any 64bit architecture. There is no such thing as intel64, the possible names are x86-64,x86_64,x64, and AMD64x86_64 but they all refer to the same architecture.
You can test this by running uname -m. On my system, for example, with an intel i7 CPU, I get:
x86_64
So, any issues you are having are not because you installed the wrong version. I suggest you post a new question, explaining your issues and we'll see if we can figure it out.
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And from the release notes for the installers: "64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop CD: Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead."– douggroMar 9, 2014 at 17:08
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@terdon thank you for the answer sr. turns out that I'm still dumb lol, living and learning. Mar 9, 2014 at 20:48
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@Yuran do not confuse ignorance with stupidity. The first is easily solved while the latter will dog you for a lifetime :).– terdonMar 9, 2014 at 20:48
They are the same thing. From Ubuntu's help page:
Each manufacturer has a different name for 64-bit, such as: AMD's AMD64 and Intel's IA-32e (later EM64T). We use AMD64 to refer to all implementations.
However, there is another 64-bit Intel architecture named Itanium, also known as IA-64. Itanium desktop machines are very rare, and that architecture hasn't been supported since version 10.04 of Ubuntu. It was discontinued due to a lack of developer interest.
