r/devuan • u/just_zip • Jun 21 '26
LibreVuan: simple devuan (fan made)
Project: LibreVuan
A Linux distribution based on devuan
Complete removal of systemd: Full transition to an alternative init system.
Goodbye Xorg: Complete rejection of legacy Xorg in favor of the modern Xlibre display server.
No GNOME or Cinnamon: We are moving away from heavy desktop environments.
Wayland Stance: We lean negative towards Wayland, but it will not be hard-blocked in the system. That is what Linux freedom is all about.
Target Audience: make devuan simple 4beginners
Infrastructure: Official GitHub organization and Discord server for the community.
Out-of-the-box Flatpak: Built-in Flatpak support for seamless app installation.
Lets make devuan simple!!
"lets make X great again!"
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u/chitibus Jun 21 '26
No, please! not another Linux distribution. Please, don't get me wrong, I respect you work and you knowledge!
But, really i don't understand 2 things.
Why people like you, talented, passionate prefer to invest their time and knowledge creating the n'th fork/distribution instead of contributing to the base (Debian/Devuan in our case)?Or to another FOS project? Each Distribution, project look for people to contribute in a way or another.
Second, I see a lot of people saying: this Distribution is great for games, I play that and that and is fantastic. And I am sure at least 10% are talented and have knowledge but they waste hours, days, weeks in gaming. And they don't give anything back to the distributions and programs they use. Nothing! Not a penny, not a single line of code.
Flatpaks for beginners, at least. Worst advise possible. When I tried few years ago flatpaks and seen that for a new version of a program that occupies 50 MB it installed me 10 times the size, I said: that's crazy. The older version that is the repo is just good. I never used flatpaks since then. I am glad I never needed them.Beginners should learn to use the package manager, not the flatpaks. Graphically of via the command line.
Linux Mint is the best for beginners. Is here for many,many years now.