How to get a feel about Bodhi 6 before installing?

Hi there

Bodhi does have a live version

Bodhi is based on Ubuntu, so things that work on Ubuntu will work on Bodhi. We also have our own repos with moksha stuff and patched/forked packages which we maintain.

We have a good wiki which answers a lot of these kind of questions. Hope this helps.

Edit - And there is this that ylee has just mentioned on discord, you can check out Bodhi 6 in a browser!

Thanks Hippytaff and enigma9o7! Your replies carry many important points... I'm not sure where the confusion about the existence of a live version came to me, but after this thread I found that it is mentioned early in the installation guide.

That distrotest.net site is just terrific! Although in that you usually can use only the themes and color schemes that come with the installation media... others would have to be uploaded as DEB packages or something similar. But the ones on installation media are usually among the best-supported ones, too. For Bodhi it showed two themes which, I think, contained somewhat too much gray for my taste -- I'm looking for lighter views.

Testing with distrotest.net got me into thinking about distros at a more philosophical level: Regarding small distros that are backed by the repositories of Ubuntu or Debian, what other value can a distro add than the immediate user experience and "eye candy"?

• Community activity such as good support on forums -- thanks for that!
• Different ways to manage settings, different flexibilities
• Unique choice of default programs

Can you think of other points or areas you would like to highlight in favor of Bodhi?

. . . My case is perhaps non-typical in that I'm planning to make a new installation that would use the same home directory as in my LXDE-based Lubuntu installation whose upgrade path has ended. The home directory is already on a different disk, so I can try to just symlink or mount it on a new system.