Old bloke returns to favourite forum thankfully
Nov 6, 2020 12:25:21 GMT
Hippytaff, ylee, and 2 more like this
Post by flymo on Nov 6, 2020 12:25:21 GMT
Greetings to all!
...and profound thanks to all the team behind Bodhi. Well done!
So happy to find my favourite forum again, which has helped our entire posse of n00bs get going over the last decade.
Life has been a bit up and down lately, and without the old forum I've been out of touch. LQ is good, but not like Bodhi.
I am no longer young, The college at which I studied engineering did not have any sort of computer, but I was good on
a slide rule. Worked for a company that supplied the bits for the predecessor to the ZX80/81/Spectrum, did the
development build on the MK14 as a result. Hooked on home computing after that!
CP/M was a good friend to me. Been a UNIX enthusiast since first encountering BSD in the early 1980s, then ran the
Mark Williams Company clone system at home for a bit, which was a hoot.
MWC: Mark_Williams_Company
Worked at TI for a bit in various countries.
.
Retired at the end of 1999, went sailing for a few years in the boat we built at home.
And in March of 2011 I was still weaning our posse of friends and family off Windows, since family and friendly visits
always ended up one way. I was in the dark corner where the PC lived, sorting out the ridiculous infestations of
malware that seemed unending. That, and the finger trouble: "I didn't really mean to delete it, Uncle!" <sigh>
...and all of the others were having a party, so Windows had to go! Bodhi was what tipped the balance for
the undecided ones, the reliability, running fast on a cheap old PC, the amazing bling that is possible, and
the unique character of the forum. Wonderful forum! So glad it is back.
I keep checking, cannot find anything better for us.
Time does fly. Most of the posse are younger than me - most of the world is, by now! The ones that are less interested
in these matters run a Linux box with ease, but take little interest in the detail. Just reliable safe computing on
affordable hardware.
Most of the posse and pals were on Xubuntu or some flavour of Mint, back in the day. But for a couple of glorious
years they were all on Bodhi, because everyone agreed that it was the best. I could fake up a desktop that looked
the way they wanted, and it was all so very reliable.
Then they wanted to do it themselves... then one of them was running an Arch partition. Tails appeared on the
map, and they all went distro-hopping as I had done.
But the ones on a budget stayed with Bodhi, and had the same speed/response as the occcasional fools who
bought a Windoze box! A good 2010 machine with Bodhi and an SSD is surprisingly responsive.
My wife and I have worn out five keyboards between us in the last seven years.... But not the PCs!
My contemporary rellies are mostly on Bodhi, so easy. At our age twitch gaming at 4K resolution is not much
fun, but the neighbours lad wanted a Steam Box before that happened in RL, so we built him a dual-boot APU box
with early Steam OS and Bodhi on the SSD, loading games from the rotating rust HDD that we could just afford,
since the total budget was AU$520. Much re/up-cycling was done!
His mates at school wanted one - and Bodhi (tweaked up to suit their taste) was a winner on netbooks.
And on chromebooks!
Looking back over the nine-plus years since we first installed Bodhi v1.0, must have done over 150 HDD
installations, and another 80 or 90 Live USBs with Apppack or similar for people sharing PCs.
Bodhi works really well with the Ubuntu Studio packages too!
Lighter desktop does not hurt the latency, and bling is so good.
OK. Now I must try to recall how to access my Discord account, make an overdue donation,
and go to bed for some sleep.
DONATION, NB. Mustn't forget that.
...and profound thanks to all the team behind Bodhi. Well done!
So happy to find my favourite forum again, which has helped our entire posse of n00bs get going over the last decade.
Life has been a bit up and down lately, and without the old forum I've been out of touch. LQ is good, but not like Bodhi.
I am no longer young, The college at which I studied engineering did not have any sort of computer, but I was good on
a slide rule. Worked for a company that supplied the bits for the predecessor to the ZX80/81/Spectrum, did the
development build on the MK14 as a result. Hooked on home computing after that!
CP/M was a good friend to me. Been a UNIX enthusiast since first encountering BSD in the early 1980s, then ran the
Mark Williams Company clone system at home for a bit, which was a hoot.
MWC: Mark_Williams_Company
Worked at TI for a bit in various countries.
.
Retired at the end of 1999, went sailing for a few years in the boat we built at home.
And in March of 2011 I was still weaning our posse of friends and family off Windows, since family and friendly visits
always ended up one way. I was in the dark corner where the PC lived, sorting out the ridiculous infestations of
malware that seemed unending. That, and the finger trouble: "I didn't really mean to delete it, Uncle!" <sigh>
...and all of the others were having a party, so Windows had to go! Bodhi was what tipped the balance for
the undecided ones, the reliability, running fast on a cheap old PC, the amazing bling that is possible, and
the unique character of the forum. Wonderful forum! So glad it is back.
I keep checking, cannot find anything better for us.
Time does fly. Most of the posse are younger than me - most of the world is, by now! The ones that are less interested
in these matters run a Linux box with ease, but take little interest in the detail. Just reliable safe computing on
affordable hardware.
Most of the posse and pals were on Xubuntu or some flavour of Mint, back in the day. But for a couple of glorious
years they were all on Bodhi, because everyone agreed that it was the best. I could fake up a desktop that looked
the way they wanted, and it was all so very reliable.
Then they wanted to do it themselves... then one of them was running an Arch partition. Tails appeared on the
map, and they all went distro-hopping as I had done.
But the ones on a budget stayed with Bodhi, and had the same speed/response as the occcasional fools who
bought a Windoze box! A good 2010 machine with Bodhi and an SSD is surprisingly responsive.
My wife and I have worn out five keyboards between us in the last seven years.... But not the PCs!
My contemporary rellies are mostly on Bodhi, so easy. At our age twitch gaming at 4K resolution is not much
fun, but the neighbours lad wanted a Steam Box before that happened in RL, so we built him a dual-boot APU box
with early Steam OS and Bodhi on the SSD, loading games from the rotating rust HDD that we could just afford,
since the total budget was AU$520. Much re/up-cycling was done!
His mates at school wanted one - and Bodhi (tweaked up to suit their taste) was a winner on netbooks.
And on chromebooks!
Looking back over the nine-plus years since we first installed Bodhi v1.0, must have done over 150 HDD
installations, and another 80 or 90 Live USBs with Apppack or similar for people sharing PCs.
Bodhi works really well with the Ubuntu Studio packages too!
Lighter desktop does not hurt the latency, and bling is so good.
OK. Now I must try to recall how to access my Discord account, make an overdue donation,
and go to bed for some sleep.
DONATION, NB. Mustn't forget that.
Small world that you had some role in the history of those machines.