This is my fourth review of Bodhi in its seven-year growing cycle. From my earliest hands-on assessment, Bodhi piqued my interest. It was different and surprisingly agile for a lightweight desktop. Even in its infancy, it impressed me.
Great article.
Bodhi, for me, makes for a great OS for my kids on a couple 32 bit machines I have sitting around the house (on my other machines, I run Debian with the Awesome WM).
We would disagree on the 'overkill' of anti-bloatware; my preference is to use apt-get in the command line before I touch anything graphical (like Synaptic or whatever Bodhi may have hanging out in the taskbar) anyway.
'sudo -i -> passwd root -> usermod -G 1000 $user -> exit' and I've got me a happy lazy-man machine that also happens to function the way any 'medium skill level' Linux user would think it should (and that forked E17 looks excellent!).
The Ubuntu installer makes for an easy brainless install so I can go about the rest of my day without having to fuss (...with something that would otherwise turn into a learning experience induced mindf--k). I just come back, fire up the CLI, do the fore-mentioned CLI magic, and run my pre-scripts for installing my 'Can't Live Without' applications (I use these pre-scripts on my Debian machines, and as you would guess, work excellent when paired with Bodhi's Ubuntu repositories).
Bodhi works awesomely and I hope the maintainers don't stop supporting the 32 bit ("Legacy") machines.
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Enlightenment Has Limits in Bodhi Linux
Posted by: Jack M. Germain August 30, 2018 10:23 AMThis is my fourth review of Bodhi in its seven-year growing cycle. From my earliest hands-on assessment, Bodhi piqued my interest. It was different and surprisingly agile for a lightweight desktop. Even in its infancy, it impressed me.
Bodhi, for me, makes for a great OS for my kids on a couple 32 bit machines I have sitting around the house (on my other machines, I run Debian with the Awesome WM).
We would disagree on the 'overkill' of anti-bloatware; my preference is to use apt-get in the command line before I touch anything graphical (like Synaptic or whatever Bodhi may have hanging out in the taskbar) anyway.
'sudo -i -> passwd root -> usermod -G 1000 $user -> exit' and I've got me a happy lazy-man machine that also happens to function the way any 'medium skill level' Linux user would think it should (and that forked E17 looks excellent!).
The Ubuntu installer makes for an easy brainless install so I can go about the rest of my day without having to fuss (...with something that would otherwise turn into a learning experience induced mindf--k). I just come back, fire up the CLI, do the fore-mentioned CLI magic, and run my pre-scripts for installing my 'Can't Live Without' applications (I use these pre-scripts on my Debian machines, and as you would guess, work excellent when paired with Bodhi's Ubuntu repositories).
Bodhi works awesomely and I hope the maintainers don't stop supporting the 32 bit ("Legacy") machines.