[aeonius]

I am just interested... how did YOU find Bodhi?

For me it was after switching from Windows I found Ubuntu. I got sick of Windows 7 as it was, well sucky. Found Unbuntu, liked it a lot (this was before Unity). But I found myself still looking. Tried Gentoo, Mint, Fedora, and finally Arch. Loved Arch - until I needed getting things to work properly... To get just the smallest thing to work in it, seemed like a struggle. By this time I had discovered E17 after using Gnome 3 on Arch for a bit. This was all beside running Ubuntu, which I kept as my main system, while trying other distros on dualboot. By this time Ubuntu launched their Unity version, which bothered the crap out of me. I still, to this day, don't understand how they could go for Unity. However, as I had already seen the amazingness of E17, I Googled "E17 lightweight distro" and found Bodhi.

I am now (obviously) using Bodhi as my primary Distro since then. I will never look or go back, in this for life =)

So I am keen to find out how YOU found Bodhi? And... shoot! =)

[JerryL]

I discovered Linux about a year ago. Used Ubuntu for a few months as a dual-boot with Win 7, then ditched Win 7. A few months later, I found Mint. Used it until last month, when I read an article on "Make Use Of" about Bodhi. I downloaded Bodhi 1.1.0, and was instantly infatuated. In fact, the very next day, I made a financial donation on the website, and haven't looked back since. I knew I had found my Linux home.

Jerry L.
Oregon, USA

[kc1di]

Hi ,

I found it after using many different Distros over the years , had play with e-16 and E-17 also even had a couple of distros set up with them. Debian, ubuntu, PCLinuxOS and Vector all come to mind and each of them have their strong points. But Like you I was basically a gnome 2.x guy never cared much for KDE. So when Gnome went to Gnome 3 I decided I needed a different desktop and basically tried the all , XFCE, LXDE, fluxbox , open box IceWM and a few others before settling on E-17 as the one I liked the best. Then saw Bodhi 1.2 on DistroWatch and give it a try. Still using it and still liking it very much. Have it installed on 4 machines now.

Cheers,
Dave

[aeonius]

JerryL, on 16 September 2011 - 09:54 PM, said:

I discovered Linux about a year ago. Used Ubuntu for a few months as a dual-boot with Win 7, then ditched Win 7. A few months later, I found Mint. Used it until last month, when I read an article on "Make Use Of" about Bodhi. I downloaded Bodhi 1.1.0, and was instantly infatuated. In fact, the very next day, I made a financial donation on the website, and haven't looked back since. I knew I had found my Linux home.

Jerry L.
Oregon, USA

Feell the same on Win7/Ubuntu. Ubuntu beats wWin7 hands down. Do you still know the link to that article, as I'd love to read it.

kc1di, on 16 September 2011 - 09:56 PM, said:

Hi ,

I found it after using many different Distros over the years , had play with e-16 and E-17 also even had a couple of distros set up with them. Debian, ubuntu, PCLinuxOS and Vector all come to mind and each of them have their strong points. But Like you I was basically a gnome 2.x guy never cared much for KDE. So when Gnome went to Gnome 3 I decided I needed a different desktop and basically tried the all , XFCE, LXDE, fluxbox , open box IceWM and a few others before settling on E-17 as the one I liked the best. Then saw Bodhi 1.2 on DistroWatch and give it a try. Still using it and still liking it very much. Have it installed on 4 machines now.

Cheers,
Dave

Yeah, Gnome 3 really dropped the ball in my opinion, seems like I am not the only one. I have also tried those wm's but still E17 is bets, also in my opinion. I have Bodhi installed on all my machines, and
it sucks work doesn't give me the opportunity to install it... else I would have,,,

Thanks for the input guys!

[JerryL]

aeonius, on 16 September 2011 - 10:20 PM, said:

Feell the same on Win7/Ubuntu. Ubuntu beats wWin7 hands down. Do you still know the link to that article, as I'd love to read it.


Yeah, Gnome 3 really dropped the ball in my opinion, seems like I am not the only one. I have also tried those wm's but still E17 is bets, also in my opinion. I have Bodhi installed on all my machines, and
it sucks work doesn't give me the opportunity to install it... else I would have,,,

Thanks for the input guys!

http://www.makeuseof...omputers-linux/

[Eduadeje]

Hi. I used a looong time ago linux ( MAndrake , Suse... ) but had to fall in M$ hands. Tired went to Apple$ for 5 years, and lasted until to make a reparation ($$$). Tried then Opensuse, Elive, Ubuntu, Arch for a year until something cracked heavily. Tried then Debian, Linuxmint, Archbang, Crunchbang for half a year and there in the forums found again that shiny desktop that caught my sight ( e17). Tried different options ( elive again, Debian, Sabayon,PCLinuxOS) and in a search founded a small review about Bodhi.......

[ylee]

Nothing complicated for me. I have been using linux since ubuntu's dapper drake days and someone gave me a netbook about a year ago. The netbook had win xp on it but xp performed terribly esp the way I use firefox with about 15 tabs open. I tried a variety of linuxs some did well and some poorly. Many had problems with the netbooks broadcom wireless card. Somewhere along the lines I read about bodhi, I already forgot where. But regardless, I tried it on usb and it functioned well, recognized my wireless card and looked nice out of the box. Plus i always had a fondness for enlightenment and am used to the debian/ubuntu base (apt-get, debs and all that) so Bodhi won out and I installed it. Truthfully it was a close call between bodhi and slitaz. Slitaz seemed a bit lighter and more responsive, but didn't recognize either my wireless card or my video card out of the box. Those two issues weren't a big deal to fix but really it was Bodhi being based on e17 that won me out

[gato2707]

I started with GNU / Linux in 2005 with Mandriva and later with Ubuntu, using always Gnome as primary DM. One day when I was doing experiments I discovered the existence of E. It was love at first sight, but I never found an implementation that fully convinced me.

I tried of course to Mandriva and Ubuntu, and I do not remember how many other distributions offer E at least as an alternative.

I regularly search at the Internet to see what's new appeared, and I do not remember where I saw an article about Bodhi, immediately downloaded the 0.16 and few days later the 0.17 that I installed on a virtual machine. I remember myself not totally convinced, but since those days watching the great potential it had.

When version 1.0 came I did not hesitate and download it, I remember those days was testing on my laptop Ubuntu 11.04 and was a huge failure. Without thinking twice, instead of trying to make the 11.04 runnable, I installed a Bodhi and there remained until today.

Everything works wonderfully well, though it is not a very recent model (Dell Inspiron 1501).

I am a teacher and I hope next year (school time) have the opportunity to change all the computers for students to Bodhi, now they have Ubuntu 10.04 installed.

I know my students as much as I enjoy the experience of using Bodhi and E as a regular DM.

[ottermaton]

For me, it was that retro green-on-black look,



Oh! Those were the days!

cheers
mark

[johr]

For a while I had been looking for a decent Linux distro that would work with my laptop's old hardware and PCI wireless card. All Windows did for me was crash just weeks after installing it, so I decided to find something else to install.

So began my long search for that elusive distro, and I went through a long list of them, from various versions of Ubuntu to Fedora to FreeBSD. Either they wouldn't install due to my limited system resources, or if I did manage to install it, I couldn't get online because of no support for my wireless card.

Then I came across Bodhi after doing yet another search for a Linux distro. I was impressed to see how well its wireless network supporting worked right out of the box, and that was from trying out the live CD alone. That convinced me to install it, and it's been running very nicely on my laptop since. My Windows partition would have no doubt crashed yet again by now.

It's been a few months since I installed Bodhi and it still works great. It boots up unbelievably fast and the wireless networking works like a charm. It's awesome to finally come across a Linux distro that finally gets it right.

[Charles@Bodhi]

Well, years ago I installed Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, aka Dapper Drake, out of curiosity. I played with it from time to time for some years, but for several reasons had to do my serious work on Windows.
At the end of Dappers lifetime time I decided to make he change to Mint 7. That too I had a few years. Next I found out about Pinguy and gave that a try. Both were working better than the Ubuntu they were based on by the way.
But then my main computer died on me and I made the change to lightweight hardware, where Vista could not work on, so never had to deal with that disaster. Well XP became heavier and slower by the day and I had enough of the bloat of Pinguy and started to scan google again for minimal distro's. I remember I stumbled over a discussion about Bodhi not being listed on distrowatch while it was to young. I read Jeffs blog and the next day I burned the ISO, booted and fell in love.
I lost count about the numbers of time I installed fresh new versions on several machines and I have downloaded my favorite apps to a CD for easy installing offline. I still have my windows partition, but I hardly boot into that one, knowing it would cost me hours, just for the update of my virusscanner and keeping microsoft "safe to use".
Well, that's my story. I'm not a linux guru, just a user, but I'm starting to know my way around. Just enough to be able to help myself and some other people.

I still love Bodhi.
Charles.

[Kamil Nadeem]

I had checked Jeff's Blog sometime back(loved The Four Different Types of Linux Users and Why Ubuntu is harder than Windows) but somehow missed on Bodhi Linux back then. I regularly check distrowatch.com and few good distro reviewers on youtube(I have a Bit of a what they distroshopper in me but I like the term distrotester) but I don't exactly remember which influenced me for Bodhi. One week before 1.2.0 , I had tested 1.1.0 but didn't explored it much but was Impressed by Its boot up time which is 40 seconds(My Ubuntu 11.04 takes 60 seconds). So when I saw the news of 1.2.0 release on distrowatch.com , downloaded it on 9th and currently using It.

[Timmy]

Well, Vista forced me to move over to Ubuntu. I think it was in the 7.10 or 8.04 days. Since then I have always had a dual boot between Ubuntu and an experimental partition (containing everything from Windows 7 to Gentoo via Arch and Fedora). I first heard of Bodhi Linux from a TWIL review: and I tried it out right away, since Arch + KDE just didn't cut it anymore for my old Dell C610, since then - or at least the 0.1.8 release - Bodhi has been my main OS, and I've enjoyed every second of it.

[aeonius]

Seems Goolge is Bodhi's friend, since many have found it that way. Also, the term "lightweight" is key. What might be pretty obvious, since you're all still using the forum, is that Bodhi is the final stop on the OS Express. Really like the comments so far, keep em comming!

[Stromson]

Well I've found it much the same way as some of the other folks here: Distrowatch. As I mentioned in my impressions post, I've been searching high and low for a Linux distro that just felt "right". I also wanted a friendly community, and a place where I could become involved in maintaining the distro in some way (documentation or otherwise). After seeing the Distrowatch post on Bodhi 1.2 being released, I decided to check it out. The rest, as they say, is history.

[JerryL]

ottermaton, on 17 September 2011 - 06:23 AM, said:

For me, it was that retro green-on-black look,



Oh! Those were the days!

cheers
mark

I love this background! I looked on the the art wiki, but can't find it? Is it still available?

Jerry

[Tara]

Googling for a minimalist Linux distro, actually. Tried a couple, but I wanted something minimalist without a bunch of extraneous crap installed for a laptop that I bring across the border... basically, I wanted a functional web browser, and the ability to ssh with X forwarding to run apps remotely off my system at home. And I wanted something relatively zippy. Bodhi fills all of those requirements.

[hippytaff]

I was battling with Arch and wondering why there were no distros that did the hard work (installing and configuring xorg etc) but left the rest of software installation up to the user. Then I read a tiny article about Bodhi in a Linux Magazine I subscribe to. It was exactly what I was looking for. So I posted such here in feedback and within minutes I had a response from Jeff H (I thought, my word, the head developer can be bothered to interact with the users) Then I got more involved in the community...and the rest is history

[aeonius]

The first thing I posted on the forum was also replied to by Jeff... I also found that astonishing. And on Arch it seems we kinda had the same idea's Hippytaff, What was that saying on IRC; Great minds think alike =)

[Jeff]

Has Twil reviewed anything past our 0.1.6 release? If not we should send them some emails - much has improved since then

~Jeff