Make x86_64 more visible or even the default choice

[Rahul Sundaram]

drago01 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently the website focuses on the x86 version of fedora and the
> x86_64 version is hidden so unless the user knows that he is searching
> for it, he will just download the x86 version.
> We should promote the x86_64 as the default choice with a visible link
> "For older PCs and Netbooks click *here*" (More information)".
> 
> In F11 effort was made to change the default x86 arch from i386 to
> i586 to gain extra performance, but benchmarks that I have done back
> than have clearly showed that you gain much more from moving moving to
> x86_64.
> Not only that you have access to more registers MMX, SSE and SSE2 can
> be used unconditionally.

Can we get a recommendation from FESCo?

Rahul