{"id":1956,"date":"2013-03-11T10:59:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2013-03-11T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:03:22","slug":"bodhi-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"Bodhi Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently been playing around with a new-ish distro called Bodhi Linux<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s a light-weight distro, and since I’m a cheap bastard who likes to spend not much money on underpowered hardware, I like to get the most I can out of my OS.<\/p>\n

That’s why I use primarily Xubuntu and Lubuntu, and even Puppy Linux on another machine. And that’s why I still stick with old Windows XP for games on another computer.\u00a0 Don’t worry, the games are all so old that I don’t need any newer software than that.<\/p>\n

But back to Bodhi.\u00a0 It’s another Ubuntu-based distro.\u00a0 I’ve tried to get away from Ubuntu because of what I see to be a bad direction that things are headed with that project.\u00a0 But sadly, most other distros don’t go out of their way to make things easy for the end user like Ubuntu.\u00a0 Except for Mint, and you can read about my failed attempts at getting Mint to work below.<\/p>\n

But I gave Bodhi a try as a live CD on a few of my computers.\u00a0 And I was seriously impressed.\u00a0 It was the fastest booting of any live CD I had ever tried, and all of the compositing and animation effects never lagged, even on this here 9-year old laptop that really shouldn’t have handled it.<\/p>\n

This is because of the wonderful window manager known as Enlightenment<\/a>.\u00a0 E17, to be exact.\u00a0 Bodhi is built around it, and after a lightening quick install, it also booted in record time too.<\/p>\n

Now that’s when my disappointment started.\u00a0 I’m a customization junkie with computers and operating systems.\u00a0 If I can’t tweak it, I won’t use it.\u00a0 And it’s not that Bodhi and E17 can’t be tweaked, it’s just that they can’t quite be tweaked enough.<\/p>\n

Deal-breaker #1 was the mouse cursor “jumping” automatically to a new open window or dialogue box.\u00a0 Hells no.\u00a0 I remember the first time I saw this kind of thing back in Windows 98.\u00a0 I think my hair spontaneously caught fire, I began to shriek, and I fell down 4 flights of stairs trying to figure out how to turn it off.<\/p>\n

But I couldn’t figure that out in Bodhi.\u00a0 Meh.<\/p>\n

Deal Breaker #2.\u00a0 Newly installed apps like Firefox and VirtualBox don’t get launchers added to the applications menu.<\/p>\n

Okay, I realize that it’s trendy now for nobody to want to have icons and menus any more.\u00a0 Nobody uses a mouse with a computer apparently.\u00a0 But damn it, I still do.\u00a0 The only way I could figure out how to get Firefox to start was to do a “run” command.\u00a0 Fuck that.<\/p>\n

Rather than try to research on the Bodhi wiki on whether or not I even could create custom launchers, I decided to go back to good old Lubuntu.\u00a0 And in the time it’s taken me to type this out, it’s installed and updated.\u00a0 Yay.<\/p>\n

Sad thing is, I had a complete, updated and customized Lubuntu 12.04 installation up and running before I wiped it to try Bodhi on that computer this morning.<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I know you’re on the edge of sanity<\/del> your seat wondering why I’m mucking about with all this OS installing business, and I shall reveal all in the next post!<\/p>\n

SCIENCE!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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