How did you find out about Bodhi?

Hi all, how I got into Bodhi? I worked briefly in an educational establishment which ran Linux (Ubuntu I think) as its main o/s, my first contact with such an esoteric concept, in 2009. I was impressed. I was running Win 7 on two oldish pcs at home, tried a couple of distros, stuck with pclinuxos for a couple of years but disliked their habit of chucking betas at users without warning (at least that was my experience). Moved through a few other distros to land on mint, my daily runaround; was given an ancient and wheezing laptop, shopped around for a light distro, and voila. So impressed that when I was given an almost new Asus notebook which I required for very few, light tasks (no office, very little audio-vis, occasional doing the crosswords on the web) it seemed ideal, as I was able to dual boot with the preinstalled Win10 (which I almost never use). Thanks to the help on this forum, I will stick with it for a long while, I hope.

PART 2 OF 2 (I already wrote how I found bodhi, but now I'm in a share-the-story-mode so wanna continue sharing how bodhi spread...).

Fast Forward 6 months and kids now sometimes fight over the one computer I setup for them. Over the years, I'd mainly used desktop PCs, and mainly upgraded pieceparts, so I had a collection of old working parts. One of them happened to be a case, cuz one of times I'd upgraded motherboards I needed a new power supply due to motherboard requirements and I decided to get a whole new case.  (If I recall correctly it was cuz the case was the display model on a clearance sale at frys electronics and it included a power supply so was cheaper than just buying a power supply even online.) So, by going thru all my old parts, I was able to put together a working athlon 64 1.5gb 10gb with 17" CRT, serial mouse with a hard rubber ball, and an AT keyboard with a ps/2 adapter.  Also has 3.5" floppy, 5.25" floppy, cdrom, cdrw, and dvdrom - not combined mind you; seperate drives!  And 5.1 toslink output!  And that became my second bodhi computer.

Far forward 6 more months, I'm using win10 on my primary computer, and familiar enough with linux after setting up and maintaining those old machines for my kids, I'm curious what it'd be like on my real PC. Dual boot with win10 for the next year, only really booting windows every coupe months to spend hours doing updates. 5.1 ISO comes out, I decide, it's time I know what I'm doing, replace hard drive with SSD and install Bodhi 5.1 clean as only OS. And haven't ever regretted it. The only slight concern I had was, what if I ever *have* to run a windows only application. I've now learned the magic of virtual machines, which eliminates that concern for me.

And now I'm familiar enough to try to help other people with bodhi setup and usage! And have gotten familiar with bash scripting, the basics of building other peoples code from source, and currently learning about making icon themes...

oscarb75 Thanks for giving Bodhi Linux a try - we hope you enjoy.

Say, we have a thread for "In the News" - it's a place to share Bodhi Linux mentions/articles/reviews. Feel free to check it out and share any article links, etc..

Cheers

Found Bodhi a few months ago while looking around for a replacement for win 8.1 on my spare netbook following its end of support a bit later. Pretty much a great replacement by my standards that doesnt have an older looking interface.

I just realized that I never voted in this poll. Many years ago I found out about it on Distrowatch.