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Post by captainplant on Jun 1, 2022 19:09:58 GMT
Hi  , I am new to Linux and I've installed Lubuntu on an old computer. Long story short, it seems Lubuntu is still too greedy for my setup and I'm looking for a lighter Linux distribution. I think Bodhi linux could work on my computer but I haven't been able to find the video card memory minimum requirement. Could it work with a NVIDIA G86M [GeForce 8400M GS] (rev a1) that has 128 Mo of GDDR3 ? Could you tell me what is the : - minimum video card memory requirement ? - Recommended video card memory requirement ? Also, I wanna use this computer for web developpement. So I need to be able to install a bunch of software like Codium, PgAdmin, Node, Postgres, Redis, Mongo... Is it possible on bodhi linux ? is it hard ? My computer config is : I have found 2 names for the computer, I think both are ok : - Computer Name : Samsung SR70S - Computer Name : Samsung NP-R70A002/SEF - Type : x64 - Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo CPU - T7300 - 2.00 GHz - BIOS : Phoenix Technologies LTD TrustedCore NB Service Pack 3B Version 0.0 04AB - 08/06/2007 - Hard Drive MBR/MSDOS : 935 Go - RAM : 3072 Mb - Video Card : NVIDIA G86M [GeForce 8400M GS] (rev a1) with 128 Mo of GDDR3 - Memory BUS : 64 Bit Thanks a lot |
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Post by thewaiter on Jun 1, 2022 19:27:02 GMT
Hello and welcome
Long story short: lubuntu and bodhi are both based on ubuntu core. If you are able to install stuff on lubuntu, you will be also on bodhi. Yes, these days bodhi with moksha desktop seems to be lighter than lubuntu with heavier LXQt desktop on hardware resources. In your case it looks the best way is installing bodhi on your PC and check the perfomance.
Stefan
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Post by captainplant on Jun 1, 2022 20:32:48 GMT
Hi, Thanks for the quick reply and for your advices |
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Post by enigma9o7 on Jun 1, 2022 21:41:55 GMT
You can use nvidia-340 proprietary driver with that gpu, same as my primary laptop and one of my desktops. Works fine with Bodhi.
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Post by captainplant on Jun 1, 2022 22:49:12 GMT
Thanks for the tip enigma9o7  |
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Post by oblio on Jun 2, 2022 16:45:08 GMT
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Post by captainplant on Jun 2, 2022 18:29:08 GMT
Thank you, it's nice out here  . It's never too late. See you around ! |
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Post by mdiemer on Jun 3, 2022 17:17:19 GMT
You may not need the Nvidia driver. The open-source drivers seem to have improved significantly lately. I would try them first, and go to Nvidia only if they don't work.
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Post by Sharp on Jun 3, 2022 20:06:59 GMT
Welcome to the forum! I am new here also.
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Post by captainplant on Jun 3, 2022 22:05:36 GMT
Hi mdiemer, I changed the "nouveau" driver for the "nvidia and I definitely needed it. It changed everything!. But still I wanna try another lighter distribution, it would be great when I have some free time Hi Sharp I hope to see you around and good luck with bodhi ! |
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Post by mdiemer on Jun 5, 2022 18:08:29 GMT
Hi mdiemer , I changed the "nouveau" driver for the "nvidia and I definitely needed it. It changed everything!. But still I wanna try another lighter distribution, it would be great when I have some free time  Ah well, it was worth trying. 304 is the last nvidia driver I could install on 6150se, and that is not possible beyond 16.04-based distros. So I was happy to find bodhi, which works fine with nouveau. I also used Bunsen Labs for awhile, that might be light enough for your situation. Although with Bodhi working, you've already got the best light distro on the planet. IMHO, of course.... |
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Post by captainplant on Jun 6, 2022 0:05:28 GMT
mdiemer it's interesting, good to know . I also had my eyes on AntiX (super light) and Puppy Linux (light but there is a lot of puppys so it's easy to get lost). Do you have an opinion on those distributions ? Thanks
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Post by mdiemer on Jun 6, 2022 17:01:45 GMT
I've used Puppy Linux, even had it working on an old Pentium II with 340 MB ram. Never used Antix. Generally, if you like a full-featured, beautiful distro that you don't need to configure much, bodhi is excellent. If you like to configure, the lighter distros, which use window managers, work well also. For example, on Bunsen Labs I had to create and edit a config. file in order to get Redshift working. Never did that before, so it took quite a while and several tutorials. I gave up on it when I could not figure out how to permanently make the mouse left-handed. Had to run a command every time. So I kept Bodhi but ditched Bunsen. Still a great distro, though.
If you want to install and start using immediately, with a traditional desktop, you can't beat Bodhi in my opinion. there are of course other great light distros out there, like Lite, Zoin, Lubuntu etc. but they are all heavier than Bodhi. Bodhi is a light as it gets before you have to go with a windows manager, as opposed to a desktop.
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Post by captainplant on Jun 6, 2022 20:41:02 GMT
Oh very nice, thanks again for sharing your experience mdiemer . Since I'm a newbie in Linux and I tend to attract problems, I think I'm gonna stick with a distro that doesn't require to much configuration  . Bodhi seems very nice and the community is great !! Maybe I did something wrong, but I also had to edit a config. file to get Redshift working on Lubuntu. Fortunatly for me I found a config file ready to copy and paste. However, coming from windows, even on Lubuntu, I feel that I need to get my hand dirty and to sweat a bit every time I wanna make something work like I want (when it works...). Puppy Linux is more complicate to start than Bodhi ? Why did you stop using Puppy ? I'm trying to understand why you put in opposition the "super light distro to configure that has a windows manager" and the "distro with full-feature traditional desktop". I just read an article (https://www.makeuseof.com/best-window-managers-for-linux/) to try to understand what you are referring to when you talked about "window manager". From what I could understand from the article, the "window manager" is an optional application that can be used on top of a graphical desktop (A graphical desktop is like LXQt for me in Lubuntu I guess) to manage the positions and placements of the windows on the screens. Do I get it right ? But from what you said, I understand that it's also an app which is absolutely needed when the distro doesn't have a graphical desktop ? So when you are talking about "super light distro to configure that has a windows manager" you mean with no graphical desktop at all ? but with graphical applications though (if not it would be a Linux server I think) ? Thanks for the precisions |
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Post by mdiemer on Jun 7, 2022 16:35:15 GMT
I only tried Puppy Linux because I wanted to see if I could get Linux working on a machine that originally came with Windows 95 (to give you an idea of how old it is). but I don't really use that machine.
A window manager is something like Openbox. Which is what Bensen Labs uses. Specifically, they use the Tint2 theme. And it functions much like a true desktop environment. It's just a lot lighter on resources. And yes, desktop environments also have window managers, so it gets confusing. I just think of it in terms of lightness. There is a big difference between full-fledged desktop environments and window managers. But a window manager still has a GUI. You could think of it as just a very light desktop environment.
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. It's never too late. See you around !
. Bodhi seems very nice and the community is great !!