Reader supplied reviews for Bodhi Linux
Average rating
9.0 from 63 review(s)
Version: 7.0.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-02-04
Votes: 3
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I have an 18 year old, 64 bit computer with 2 GB RAM. I tried antiX, Bodhi, Q4OS (Trinity), Mint xfce, MX Linux on it, all ran fine.
Mx Linux, Mint xfce, and Q4OS all ate significantly more RAM than either antiX and Bodhi. With Mx Linux consuming the most, followed by Mint xfce and then Q4OS. Surprisingly Mint was far zippier than both MX Linux and Q4OS and overall give great bang for your RAM consumption. I decided to discard MX Linux and Q4OS from consideration. MX Linux was simply too heavy for what I felt I was getting - they do have a great support forum as does Mint. Where Q4OS fell down for me was RAM and support, they simply had far to many substantive unanswered questions in their forum for my taste. I am still considering Mint xfce as a dual boot option on this computer.
That left Bodhi and antiX. Both are very, very light, with antiX at about 100 MB RAM and Bodhi at about 240 MB RAM. Both antiX and Bodhi have superlative support forums, something that matters a great deal to me. Oddly, Bodhi seemed a bit faster to load applications than antiX. And Bodhi' appcenter is very polished, in fact the entire Moksha desktop is rather elegant. Bodhi lacks the updater antiX has and could be much improved with a lightweight one, still and all the command line route is tried and true. When considering RAM I try and look at what that RAM is buying me. In Bodhi's case it is the gorgeous, highly customizable, workstream-friendly Moksha desktop. antiX itself is no slouch in the customization front, but Bodhi's elegance won out with me: it was worth the extra 140 MB RAM to me and as I noted,Bodhi seem a bit faster overall, but it could just be my imagination. Back to RAM consumption. For my workflow, even with just 2 GB RAM. on Bodhi I never even me close to running out of RAM, seldom did I exceed 1.1 GB out of my 2 GB. In fact I never red-lined with Mint xfce either on this hardware. My point is that is why the delta in RAM between Bodhi and antiX was not more significant to me, I prefer not to give up the 140 MB but, to me, Moksha is worth it. If I only had 1 GB RAM I would have leaned antiX and Mint xfce would just be a funny notion, but with 2 GB RAM Bodhi's speed, elegance, and ease of use carried the day. But you cannot go wrong with either distro.
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Version: 7.0.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-01-30
Votes: 2
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I usually like antiX and after 2018 I stopped using Ubuntu derivatives.
Some month ago, my doughter gifted me a MacBook air early 2014, 4 Gram, cpu i5.
That pc with Debian derivatives has some heating problems: once installed Bodhi + macfanctld, all te issues disappeared.
I like this distro, it is a bit naked and post installation is not obvious, par contre it is very fast and light.
It's app centre is a bit poor, but it is easily accessible to all the programs for Ubuntu and Debian.
For sure a goto distro and my second choice and first one for future MacIntel
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Version: 7.0.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-23
Votes: 7
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Bodhi Linux is running smoothly with stability on my old low end PC which has Core 2 Duo CPU and 1GB RAM. Although I was testing distros which are intended as lightweight, I feel like they are not stable to use it as daily driver.
But Bodhi so reliable for me and it can be used as daily driver. Internet browser is quite fast still even after opening many tabs while other distros which are meant for lightweight are unresponsive after doing so. Everything works out of the box. It can also detect my old external WiFi device automatically since my PC has no WiFi. I like Bodhi Linux
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