johan
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Post by johan on Aug 24, 2023 18:19:20 GMT
I have to compliment the developers with their great achievements regarding the new release. It works flawlessly and smooth, I absolutely love it. Also, the support on the Bodhi user forum is fantastic. The new theme I love it, I will keep using Bodhi and recommend it to all.
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Post by thewaiter on Aug 24, 2023 18:34:23 GMT
This is something I appreciate a lot. Actually I am that one who tuned old MokshaGreen theme for BL7. I can see some reviewers complaining for more green than need to be and obsolete design. I really like this idea of theme and icons and ideologically it really matches our goal.
Stefan
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berde
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Post by berde on Sept 6, 2023 8:30:09 GMT
I have a number of machines with only 4Gb RAM & so do many family/friends. As Linux distro's over the years progressively demand more and more RAM to perform the *same tasks* they did 15 years ago I became fed up & starting looking for a true low resource usage distro with a polished full featured GUI desktop.
After evaluating dozens & dozens of distro's I found Bodhi is much lower in RAM use compared to any Xfce/LXqt/Lxde distro I could find. Since I have other users in the house & potentially other friends I may recommend this to, it has to have the expected amenities like, adding a program populates the menu etc, and it also needs to be *stable*. I don't have time to constantly fiddle with others machines, let alone my own so being based on Ubuntu 22.04 is A Good Thing[tm].
So far this week the oldest machine I have installed Bodhi 7 on is an ancient Apple iMac (late 2009 aka 10.1). Together with an SSD this machine is very usable.
I tried Bodhi 6 a month ago & jumped at the chance to install Bodhi 7. I'm very impressed at the decisions made by the dev's. Will be recommending this to others with older machines!!
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daeo
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Post by daeo on Sept 7, 2023 13:20:27 GMT
I have an old ChromeOS laptop that was underpowered even for a Chromebook when new. The hard disk is just 15 Gig and is not replaceable- soldered to MB. Mint XFCE got too large to fit on it, so I went to Bodhi which post install takes up less than 10 gig. It worked great right out of the box- no mean feat, as many distros will not produce sound (virtual soundcard) and other oddities. The distro is light and fast. The lack of apps in the distro is not a problem for me, as , coming from a Chromebook I'm used to using online apps for most heavy lifting.
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Post by thewaiter on Sept 7, 2023 17:53:30 GMT
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rayg
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Post by rayg on Sept 27, 2023 1:07:57 GMT
I chose to run Bodhi 7 as a full install on my secondary desktop because it's simple, functional, elegant, and the boot speed is awesome. It replaced Mint 21.2, and so far I'm quite happy with it. I ditched Chromium immediately though, I don't want anything associated with Google touching my system.
In intended to run Bodhi 7 on my old laptop as well, as a replacement for Mint 17.3, but after a full installation and configuration to the way I like things, I had to do a couple reboots because it froze for no apparent reason. Never had that issue with Mint 17.3, so after less than 48 hours after installation, I replaced Bodhi 7 with Mint 21.2. I'll have to wait and see how things go, but I haven't had any freezing so far.
I'm tempted to run it as the main driver on my primary desktop (Mint 20.3), but all my Steam games are running great, so I don't want to mess with that.
Cheers!
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tenplus1
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Post by tenplus1 on Sept 30, 2023 14:44:40 GMT
I noticed that newer ubuntu-based distro's were using far more resources than they really should have been, and I had always liked Enlightenment, so Bodhi was a good move since it's low resource and works well with Moksha.
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oscarb75
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Post by oscarb75 on Oct 13, 2023 16:48:26 GMT
I noticed that newer ubuntu-based distro's were using far more resources than they really should have been, and I had always liked Enlightenment, so Bodhi was a good move since it's low resource and works well with Moksha. That's the "evolution" of many OSs. Ubuntu doesn't work in an acceptable way on a c2d with 4gb ram. Win10 is slow on a quad core with 8gb and SSD. On such PCs, Bodhi flights! I haven't tested Win11 yet, but I don't expect a better OS, from this point of view.
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eor2004
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Post by eor2004 on Nov 21, 2023 3:07:51 GMT
I have several laptops and Bodhi is one one of my T61p. Bodhi stands out in terms of the readability, quality, and practicality of the documentation in the Wiki, FAQs, etc as well as the overall friendliness of the forum. The desktop just has an innate appeal to me, but moreover the system is light, which I appreciate just on principle. What follows is the distros I trialed: AbsoluteLinux antiX BionicPup Bodhi CorePlus Exe Elive FatDog84 FossaPup Instant OS Komander Kubuntu Linux Lite Linux Mint Lubuntu LXLE Manjaro MX Linux Peppermint Porteus Cinnamon Porteus Gnome Porteus KDE Porteus LXDE Porteus LXQT Porteus Mate Porteus Openbox Porteus XFCE Slax SliTaz TAILs Void Ubuntu Mate Xubuntu Zorin Lite Same here, I have tried almost all of those you listed here on an old HP Compaq dc5750 small form factor PC and Bodhi right now is the one who is performing the best on this machine, cheers!
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Post by ifwedisconnect on Nov 29, 2023 16:45:18 GMT
I used to run Elementary OS, and before that win11. However I didnt like the look of eOS, it looked too modern for me, and reminded me of iMacs.
I decided to run bodhi as it is pretty lightweight, even with the app pack and it reminds me of the late 2000s. I was surprised at how smooth bodhi is, even with the dated gui (Please do not take that as an insult, I love its look!)
bodhi 7.0 is much smoother and better than any os I have tried before, and I have no issues with running it at all =]
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Post by ifwedisconnect on Nov 29, 2023 16:47:49 GMT
Around the Windows 7 era is where I felt the Windows fatigue. I initially began with regular Ubuntu release at that time but really disliked the sluggish desktop environment. After trying Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Lubuntu and Linux Mint, I had decided on Lubuntu despite some gripes with setting it up and performing certain tasks on it, it still vastly outperformed Windows in what I needed. Linux Mint was the worst of the 4 I just mentioned, considering almost nothing worked out of the box and wasn't worth the multiple headaches required to *maybe* get everything working okay. Lubuntu was my rock until recently with the introduction of unnecessary gloss and updates that was not wanted or helpful, and instead contributes to system performance issues. I think the reason you're seeing a lot of people fleeing systems like Linux Mint is because of this. It seems like the longer these efficient, well oiled Linux distributions are around, the more likely they are to get too big and bloated to the point that they become slow and problematic and completely lose what made them so great to begin with. On that note I hope that Bodhi remains crazy efficient and stable as it is right now 'cause I will be deeply saddened if I have to switch. This system handles everything I throw at it like a champion. I can do things on here I thought was impossible due to hardware limitations. Never have I used such a responsive and overall useful pc as my old 64gb netbook running bodhi.
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Post by marcelo1966 on Feb 1, 2024 15:49:21 GMT
Hola a todos, usuario de Windows desde su unicio por cuestiones de trabajo, pero siempre anduve investigando cosas, pase por zenwalk, ubuntu, Lubunto, Mint,y ahora instale Bodhi, en realidad estoy luchando con eso porque la pc donde lo instale es viejita y queria revivirla, pero aparentemente tiene problemas con la tarjeta de video porque despues de instalar, cuando llego el momento de reiniciar, solo volvio con una hermosa pantalla negra y de ahi no salio. Si conocen algun hilo del tema estare agradecido. Saludos
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angels
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Post by angels on Apr 2, 2024 11:49:11 GMT
Um, I've come from more than I care to remember lol.
I started in Unix, then various Dos versions and into Win 9x/2k, ran versions of Mac OSX for a while (dual booting a Dual Xeon Mac Pro was fun). I've been dual booting different flavours since 2k and XP. Most recently I've had Win 10/Win 11 and have gone from them to Bodhi 7.
My favourite distros to date have been Yoper, and Bodhi. Yoper is no longer around (or needed anymore really), leaving Bodhi. I should also put LFS here as well, the number of times I've run an LFS system.
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Post by worthless on Apr 2, 2024 15:27:39 GMT
Windows 10 upgraded from Windows 8. The poor old laptop could barely move. Tried Mint, MX, AntiX, Puppys, Easy and some others whose names I have now forgotten. Bodhi is the best. Ready for me to install and use what I want without a lot of stuff to lag the system down. The minimalist approach anchored me to Bodhi. The poor old laptop moves along nicely now.
Please keep up the great work. We need you.
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Post by Just-A-Writer on May 28, 2024 1:22:37 GMT
I have a 10+ year history with Windows, starting with Vista, and Linux. I won't bore you with the details, but in my current phase of using Linux I used Ubuntu 16.04 GNOME Remix (before Ubuntu went back to GNOME as a default desktop environment). I used it for just about over a year which was a record for me for any OS at the time. There was nothing wrong with it on a PC from 2011, but once I tried Bodhi 5 and saw how fast it was and how cool it looked, I couldn't resist.
I'm not currently using Linux, but if things turn out right I'll be using Bodhi on my Mac once it becomes obsolete this fall.
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