Any difference in CrunchBang pae or non-pae for 32-bit 1 GB laptop?
 

Hi.

I meant to install the CrunchBang 11 non-pae iso but instead installed the pae iso. Does it matter much? My laptop has 1 GB ram so the pae part is of no advantage.

Thanks.

As long as cpu supports it you're ok. If it didn't support pae it would not boot.

The performance advantage of non PAE in that situation is so tiny you probably could not measure it if you tried.

The only difference between the PAE and non-PAE version is in fact the kernel. While there shouldn't be massive performance decrease due to you useng a PAE kernel you can still just try it and additionally install the non-PAE kernel.

Cheers guys. That cleared that up.