New user on 16 years old laptop- good and bad things about Bodhi latestes version
by ppc76 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#55CRM)
I had installed, in 2016, the then latest version on this old laptop that I gave to my parents. It ran great.
Yesterday I thought it was time for an upgrade- I installed the newest 32 bits Bodhi linux. The live version ran great from the cd, so, I installed. About 30 minutes, not so bad, taking into account I was doing it from a cd
at at 90% of the install, the screen blacked and I thought it had crashed- it was just to save power- this can scare newbies...
after the install process was over, I rebooted.
2 problems- grub showed up "ubuntu", not "bodhi", and worse, then "error: no symbol found". Fortunately pressing any key did allow the boot process to continue.
It booted fine- but... no internet- the network icon wasn't even available near the clock..
I'm a medium level linux user, so I opened my network connection form the menu, found out how to solve the boot problem and rebooted.
Nice, now grub showed Bodhi, and no more errors, and the network indicator automatically opened. I did began installing everything I needed, libreoffice, firefox, a docment viewer, file roller,etc. During that time I began to reange icons on the toolbar (the drawer) so they are more "familiar" to my parents (more windows like)- and found out that there's a bug- many, many time, when activating the "moving" mode, icons switch places by themselves. Terminalogy icon automatically was replaced by the colored on that shows a old style monitor. I fixed that too, no big problem.
I want to add a "search" icon the the idesk (adding Everything there), but I can't seem to find the application's name to add to the icon. Can anyone help with that?
The apps tore does not open in Web, only in firefox
One more minor complaint: the top of the bar is, after opening apps, cut by some dots- The top of the circle of the menu gets cut, for example... Why?
Except for the grub error- I only have very minor "complaints" as you can see
Now the good stuff:
On this 16 years old 32 bits machine with 1 Gig of RAM, Bodhi uses so little RAM (less in fact than the previous version I had installed), and allows Firefox, ungoogled chromium and libreoffice to be perfectly usable. This rig is so old that it takes many seconds to load the applications, but, once open, the computer responds almost like a modern one!
Sure I can use antiX on this machine, but Bodhi is more usable, specially for older folks, seems more familiar to use, looks very nice to boot! Even has space for eyecandy like transparencies, etc.
I'm not a Ubuntu fan, mainly because I don't use recent computers, but I do admit, having it as the distro's backbone makes it easy to use- I google how to solve the grub problem and I found the solution instantly. Also, PPA's can be a pain, but they were the best way to use ungoogled chromium.
Who would have though that a computer this old could be perfectly usable today?
Suggestion:
I found a YouTube video, that I can no longer find again, that showed how to change colors- can it be easily done? Change, for example, all the green in the icons, to white, for example?
Yesterday I thought it was time for an upgrade- I installed the newest 32 bits Bodhi linux. The live version ran great from the cd, so, I installed. About 30 minutes, not so bad, taking into account I was doing it from a cd
at at 90% of the install, the screen blacked and I thought it had crashed- it was just to save power- this can scare newbies...
after the install process was over, I rebooted.
2 problems- grub showed up "ubuntu", not "bodhi", and worse, then "error: no symbol found". Fortunately pressing any key did allow the boot process to continue.
It booted fine- but... no internet- the network icon wasn't even available near the clock..
I'm a medium level linux user, so I opened my network connection form the menu, found out how to solve the boot problem and rebooted.
Nice, now grub showed Bodhi, and no more errors, and the network indicator automatically opened. I did began installing everything I needed, libreoffice, firefox, a docment viewer, file roller,etc. During that time I began to reange icons on the toolbar (the drawer) so they are more "familiar" to my parents (more windows like)- and found out that there's a bug- many, many time, when activating the "moving" mode, icons switch places by themselves. Terminalogy icon automatically was replaced by the colored on that shows a old style monitor. I fixed that too, no big problem.
I want to add a "search" icon the the idesk (adding Everything there), but I can't seem to find the application's name to add to the icon. Can anyone help with that?
The apps tore does not open in Web, only in firefox
One more minor complaint: the top of the bar is, after opening apps, cut by some dots- The top of the circle of the menu gets cut, for example... Why?
Except for the grub error- I only have very minor "complaints" as you can see
Now the good stuff:
On this 16 years old 32 bits machine with 1 Gig of RAM, Bodhi uses so little RAM (less in fact than the previous version I had installed), and allows Firefox, ungoogled chromium and libreoffice to be perfectly usable. This rig is so old that it takes many seconds to load the applications, but, once open, the computer responds almost like a modern one!
Sure I can use antiX on this machine, but Bodhi is more usable, specially for older folks, seems more familiar to use, looks very nice to boot! Even has space for eyecandy like transparencies, etc.
I'm not a Ubuntu fan, mainly because I don't use recent computers, but I do admit, having it as the distro's backbone makes it easy to use- I google how to solve the grub problem and I found the solution instantly. Also, PPA's can be a pain, but they were the best way to use ungoogled chromium.
Who would have though that a computer this old could be perfectly usable today?
Suggestion:
I found a YouTube video, that I can no longer find again, that showed how to change colors- can it be easily done? Change, for example, all the green in the icons, to white, for example?