You said "I'm not sure there's ever been an official 64-bit release" when there has been an official release for a while now. So you can understand why I might

You said "I'm not sure there's ever been an official 64-bit release" when there has been an official release for a while now. So you can understand why I might have thought you did not know an official release existed? It has not been a pain in the ass on amd64 since the fall of 2008.