Post by knut on Mar 24, 2021 6:47:09 GMT
Hi y'all,
nice to see such a friendly forum around this nice distro.
I had a look at Bodhi a long time ago, but did not stick with it, as I was still in my distro hopping phase (I think most of you will have had that at some time) and when it found its end, I came to rest with Crunchbang, later Bunsenlabs, which after following the famous 30 window mangers in 30 days thread, lead me to have a very minimal setup around i3 (xmonad for a short while, but I grew annoyed with Haskell).
Using older computers was in the beginning a necessity, as I was not able to afford a new one and was able to get my hands on discarded office laptops quite easily. Working in IT my collection of old laptops grew slowly and with them my appreciation of them and my consciousness of my preferences. Before reparing the laptop I am writing this on, my currently used devices are a Latitude 6440 (my newest and fastest, but already discarded at work, because of unfixable problems with its TPM), a Thinkpad x220 (my first Thinkpad and moment of enlightenment about why my hackier friends all like Thinkpads) and a Thinkpad x60s that is running Trisquel on Libreboot, so that I have at least one computer that runs completely free software.
That Trisquel install somehow reawakened a little distro hopping spirit and when I got the fan of this second little x60s repaired, I looked at distrowatch for Ubuntu (because of the nice middle ground between usably new, but still somewhat stable) based distros that would fit an older 32bit system. Seeing Bodhi was still around, I had the hunch to have a look at it again after all those years and I really liked what I saw, so I choose to go with it and am growing more used to the Moksha desktop every day. This might become the main distro that I recommend to people who want to use older computers.
When I am not tinkering with Linuxes and computers in general, I like to pracice yoga and am known to run a lot.
Thank you all for the great work you obviously put into this project!
nice to see such a friendly forum around this nice distro.
I had a look at Bodhi a long time ago, but did not stick with it, as I was still in my distro hopping phase (I think most of you will have had that at some time) and when it found its end, I came to rest with Crunchbang, later Bunsenlabs, which after following the famous 30 window mangers in 30 days thread, lead me to have a very minimal setup around i3 (xmonad for a short while, but I grew annoyed with Haskell).
Using older computers was in the beginning a necessity, as I was not able to afford a new one and was able to get my hands on discarded office laptops quite easily. Working in IT my collection of old laptops grew slowly and with them my appreciation of them and my consciousness of my preferences. Before reparing the laptop I am writing this on, my currently used devices are a Latitude 6440 (my newest and fastest, but already discarded at work, because of unfixable problems with its TPM), a Thinkpad x220 (my first Thinkpad and moment of enlightenment about why my hackier friends all like Thinkpads) and a Thinkpad x60s that is running Trisquel on Libreboot, so that I have at least one computer that runs completely free software.
That Trisquel install somehow reawakened a little distro hopping spirit and when I got the fan of this second little x60s repaired, I looked at distrowatch for Ubuntu (because of the nice middle ground between usably new, but still somewhat stable) based distros that would fit an older 32bit system. Seeing Bodhi was still around, I had the hunch to have a look at it again after all those years and I really liked what I saw, so I choose to go with it and am growing more used to the Moksha desktop every day. This might become the main distro that I recommend to people who want to use older computers.
When I am not tinkering with Linuxes and computers in general, I like to pracice yoga and am known to run a lot.
Thank you all for the great work you obviously put into this project!
