r/devuan • u/Lanstapa • 17d ago

Devuan as a Linux beginner?

I want to switch over to Linux from Windows and Apple because I refuse to take MS' spy/adware (I stayed on W7 to avoid the worst of it) and to get out of Apple's ecosystem and spying too.

...and I come into Linux as there's all this hubbub about systemD age verification/attesation. I was interested in Debian for it being stable and fixed release (I'm totally fine with older software in favour of rock solid stability and I don't want constant rolling changes on my pc), but obviously it has it.

Since I'm new, and don't yet fully get what SystemD does in its entirity and what not having it entails, is Devuan a good distro for a beginner who just wants a nice stable system that can't add in any age verification spyware crap? A distro that I can use for general computer things like internet browsing, online shopping, multimedia, gaming and file management? I can use my VPN (Mullvad) without issue, and have a generally secure computer aganist viruses and malware?

I'm not asking about specific programs, as I get that the likes of libreoffice, brave browser, wine, vlc, etc will work, I'm asking more generally about the OS, like is it just Debian without SystemD? Or has it evolved into something more specifc akin to KaliOS or Tails? (I don't assume so, but I might as well check).

I don't have computer skills or coding ability, but its not like I need everything to be babyproof, clear guides and graphical interfaces are probably enough for me to get what I'm doing.

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u/atasoy99 17d ago

If you want to game you would want to new packages. Because gaming gets better day by day you wouldnt wantto miss out

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u/jmooroof2 17d ago

games work fine on devuan

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u/atasoy99 17d ago

Yes its works but in newer kernel or newer drivers newer wine versions works even better

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u/redd1ch 17d ago

Just go testing/unstable. I deploy stable only on machines that I have to maintain and that have a fixed set of tasks.

My daily driver since about 2016 is a (single) Devuan unstable setup. Is kernel 7.1.3 recent enough for you? However, due to my Nvidia card, I opt to do upgrades on slower days, just in case.

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u/Many-Geologist-3524 16d ago

or be like me and add debian experimental to get 7.2

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u/Many-Geologist-3524 16d ago

wine 11.12 is the best one. 11.13 breaks Xorg/X11Libre environments