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Post by Hippytaff on Aug 13, 2020 16:03:04 GMT
Please let us know how you found out about Bodhi and the Forums by adding to the polls below above. I find these things interesting. Thank you!
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Post by ylee on Aug 13, 2020 16:25:14 GMT
Someone had given me a broken netbook or they thought it was broken. It merely lacked a driver, it was running win XP poorly. At the time I used DWM on my desktop but had grown tired of its limitations. I had played around with e16 and e17 in the past and looked around and found MoonOS which was beautiful and elegant and ran great on the netbook. Sadly MoonOs was out of date, so I installed Debian and compiled EFL and e17 from source code. Worked fine for what it was. I looked at Elive also beautiful but didn't like the you have to pay model they were using at the time. Googling around for e17 distros I found Bodhi. Less effort than compiling from source code but little did I know I would still end up compiling from source code as I now make nearly all the deb files. And am now in the role of keeping our e17 fork running and up to date with the EFL changes.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 16:44:13 GMT
long time ago i saw an os - which to this day oi still cannot remeber or find the name of it that offered e17 - enlightenment. it was buggy and stuff did not work and the help info and people on that specific forum were so arrogant re: any type of help; but i found it fascinating. i then found out somehow about bodhi and tried it and loved it. i also did give e19 a looksee but also had some issues with it. not sure if this makes any sense. ( is that the right answer? did i win the prize?) heh heh!!!
p.s. i do remeber the desktop on that original e os was a dark red desktop/wallpaper. i struggled for years to try to find out what it was to no avail.
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Post by thewaiter on Aug 13, 2020 17:13:31 GMT
My colleague used Linux some years before me and I was in the process of switching from Win to another OS because of very weak Lenovo S12 with exotic VIA chipset. I tried several distros like Ubuntu, Manjaro etc but all too heavy for that machine. My colleague told me Bodhi was mentioned in some WEB magazines and should be light. I gave it a try. Yes, it was light and elegant but very hard to understand menus and all structures. Also Linux was too new for me. I had no idea how to work with new OS. The colleague was very helpful although he was/is too CLI guy and I considered it to be too complicated to remember all that commands. So I went my way. I broke and reinstalled Bodhi tens times while I got use to it. Then I fell in love. All story happend in 2011...Since that year many things changed. I became interested in making deb packages, fixing modules, fixing themes and doing lots Bodhi stuff around.
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Post by wimc on Aug 13, 2020 21:33:41 GMT
Distrowatch, years and years ago decided it was time to do away with winblows 10.
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Post by Hippytaff on Aug 13, 2020 21:43:28 GMT
Distrowatch, years and years ago decided it was time to do away with winblows 10. I should add Distrowatch to the poll. |
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Post by majpooper on Aug 14, 2020 0:58:03 GMT
I mentioned this a few day ago in the DistroWatch thread "I am just a computer user no tech skills in terms of what goes into an OS. But I was not happy with Windows about the time Win 7 was released - had an old printer that was not supported anymore and supposedly needed to update Office and my PC was running really slow etc. and it all meant I needed to spend more $$$ on a new Windows PC or so the Big Box computer people told me. The husband of a family friend told me about linux but I thought that was a bridge too far so I signed up for a linux course at the local community college and learned how to install SuSe. It was a bit of a struggle at first but I had my old PC up and running and one of my classmates recommended Ubuntu and things got a lot easier. Finally at a wedding reception about 6 years ago I was talking to a banking IT security guy and he suggested Mint and I have been on LM ever since. At first I was like monkey with a machine gun at the mall just going crazy trying anything and everything . . . because I could and when I broke something well, I could always do a fresh install - yeah, and then I discovered VMs. As time went on people would complain about their PC or laptops and I would mention linux and if they were interested I would install it for them - I have done this about 8 or 9 times for several people. A few times I was asked if I could install linux on really old rigs like this old MacBook. I tried all the usual suspects (Xunbuntu, Puppy, Pepermint etc.) and was never really happy. I even tried to strip down Debian but soon found I was waaaay over my head. Then I discovered BL actually on a site maintained by one of the LM forum members on how to tweak Mint and some ubuntu based distros including BL. "
Thing is I can't get off this MacBook - I just love the OS - Now I am considering putting BL on my Lenovo T430 (i7 8Gb RAM) - is that crazy ?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 1:09:45 GMT
i have run linux over the last decade plus on thinkpads. recent ones are the x series. my wife runs a dell inspiron i got from my sister.
would love to get a new laptop!!!!! just may when i can. love the 13" star labs labtop.
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Post by ylee on Aug 14, 2020 13:01:13 GMT
... Thing is I can't get off this MacBook - I just love the OS - Now I am considering putting BL on my Lenovo T430 (i7 8Gb RAM) - is that crazy ?
I run Bodhi on everything except some VMs I have around to check out other distros/DEs. It is what I am used to and it is faster than almost everything except some DE really stripped down or basic (DWM). So no it is not crazy. Bodhi is just not for old machines and truthfully trying to ensure it works well on older hardware is a little stressful esp with all distros stopping support for i386. |
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Post by ondoho on Aug 15, 2020 10:01:04 GMT
Back in the day when Linux Mint had a Fluxbox release (and there was also something called FluxBuntu, but it was already dead when I found it) there was also Bodhi Linux. I remember trying it briefly, and being amazed at how much eye candy, transparency, animation etc. is possible on weak hardware. But everything *box had already caught me by then, until today... I'll leave it to you to figure out when that was  |
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Post by questionbot on Aug 23, 2020 16:49:00 GMT
I googled best light Linux distros and saw it on a few lists..
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Post by lariosgin on Sept 10, 2020 5:25:03 GMT
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Post by Hippytaff on Sept 10, 2020 7:05:19 GMT
Hi lariosgin Welcome to the forums and community, and thanks for your feedback. |
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Post by wolfgangblack on Oct 30, 2020 17:43:28 GMT
I have used Bodhi on and off for years because I love Enlightenment and play with older computers.
I think it is a great distro that looks fantastic and runs well and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Linux.
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Post by thewaiter on Oct 30, 2020 18:05:50 GMT
Thanx for kind words
Stefan
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