Bodhi Linux is pointless. There's no other word to describe it.
The distribution lacks pretty much everything to be functional, starting with a text editor and continuing everywhere. There are many bugs and problems, both visual and functional. The desktop theme is designed to be stylish, but it manages to be cramped and archaic, with the old-looking font decorations that pale against the typical modern Gnome or KDE stuff.
But even if you ignore the aesthetics, Bodhi Linux gives you no reason to use it. Absolutely everything you might expect from a typical desktop is missing, save the Web browser, which too lacks the bling-bling demanded by today's users. Getting the extra stuff requires a liberal use of the package manager, turning minimalistic into a saga of hard work. Do you expect the average user to hunt for hundreds of missing programs and be able to tell the difference between Shutter, Shotwell, Openshot, and F-Spot? And you don't get even a bloody text editor! Vi and Emacs, that's gonna delight Ubuntu crowds.
At the end of the day, removing 300MB of disk data results in a totally crippled distribution, with a wagonload of problems, errors and inconsistencies. In its current incarnation, Bodhi is just a testbed and should not be used as a public release. In fact, distributing will do more bad than good, as it could become one day a great system, but the first impression is everything.
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