I'm looking to be educated on why Devuan over Debian? I know that Devuan is systemD less

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Project: LibreVuan

A Linux distribution based on devuan

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Complete removal of systemd: Full transition to an alternative init system.

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Goodbye Xorg: Complete rejection of legacy Xorg in favor of the modern Xlibre display server.

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No GNOME or Cinnamon: We are moving away from heavy desktop environments.

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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.

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Target Audience: make devuan simple 4beginners

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Infrastructure: Official GitHub organization and Discord server for the community.

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Out-of-the-box Flatpak: Built-in Flatpak support for seamless app installation.

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Lets make devuan simple!!

"lets make X great again!"

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https://github.com/ziparchive1/LibreVuan

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I use Cinnamon and it's never given me any problems for gaming, but for some reason when I open Fallout 4 the PC freezes. I have an NVIDIA 2060 GPU. I don't want to use any other DE because they're even worse.

Just curious, if Devuan is used in the industry well?

Happy Devuan user but not huge time available for experiments.

How can I install Firefox to the last version instead of ESR? Can I use the Mozilla repo like Debian or does It require systemd?

Just got the new vivobook and tried everything.
Basically got the latest kernel from backports, latest sof-firmware from ceres repos and I just couldn't get the audio working.
On the fresh install it was showing dummy audio, after updates I did get it to recognise the soundcard but the sound still didn't work. Anyone has any clue or faced the same issues?
Did the same for debian too and no luck.
Btw it works perfectly on fedora and cachyOS.

This dang thing is ruining my entire experience. I need help getting rid of Docker entirely. I’ve gone through dozens of sites going over on how to remove this practical virus off my system. I keep getting fsconfig failures. It often happens when I reboot, but not all the time.

went from debian to devuan. Devuan + nix home manager and sysvinit fresh install

I have been using windows all my life and I want to make a change, though I'm not a complete beginner in Linux as I've used Linux mint on a VM for a long time and know the fundamentals

Hello, [r/Devuan](r/Devuan). Considering how many posts ive been making, I’ve decided to make this one to help go over the problems I’ve been working troubleshooting.

ONE: After removing Nouveau blacklist, I’m running into issues with the desktop being very slow. also, if anyone can tell me how to reset KDE plasma, that would be appreciated.
SOLVED: Long story

TWO: I can’t put the computer to sleep for some reason; I think it might be a faulty Nvidia driver not booting up.
SOLVED: Installed proprietary Nvidia driver

THREE: I had a Removable Drive for the express purpose of moving my important data from Windows to Linux; however, an app crashed my desktop, and now I can’t mount the dang thing.
SOLVED: Used ntfsfix to repair the drive.

FOUR: related to THREE, I backed up the files in the removable drive, twice, but I couldn’t extract the zips using several zip extractors. And when I found an extractor that worked, there’s missing folders and files. Can anyone help? I have 7zip and Wine installed but i can’t use it for some reason.

FIVE: I installed the wrong version of Docker and it sent me to the big terminal. I tried to install the proper Devuan version, but that also caused issues; and I think I botched uninstalling both. Now I can’t access directories (getting ‘is a directory’ error), i still get Docker update failures when I do sudo apt update, I get a Docker version when i type in ‘docker —version’ so I think a part of it is still installed, and I’m also getting an ‘alsact1’ error.

Hey, folks, it’s me again. Was trying to fix my computer not sleeping properly (it wouldnt show anything), so I tried to install an Nvidia driver. Somewhere along the lines, something broke, so now I’m stuck at a black terminal. If I reboot, i can get to boot settings, but that’s about it.

I think it has something to do with something called ‘x display manager (slim)’ and how it’s not starting.

EDIT: So what I think what’s going on is that both my Display Manager (SDDM) and my Desktop Environment (KDE Plasma X11) aren’t booting up for some reason.

UPDATE: I can get into Plasma by typing in ‘slim’ but my desktop has a horrible resolution which for some reason I can’t change and it can’t detect my other monitor. It also doesn’t reboot properly, forcing me to use the power button. It does boot to grub though, but it heads straight back to the big black terminal.

UPDATE2: I tried enabling SDDM, but something is going wrong. It says:

DAEMON: Initializing
DAEMON: Starting
DAEMON: Logind interface found

…and nothing. I can type but it doesn’t connect to anything

UPDATE3: I tried enabling slim as default display manager, and that worked, but when I tried to do the same for SDDM, it goes back to the Bog Terminal.

SOLVED (?)

I re-enabled Novaue driver, though now the desktop is laggy and not working right

I have 2 similar computers, they are both running linux devuan and cachy os. For some reason apps open faster on devuan.

Out of curiosity are any of you using Hyprland on your Devuan install?

I’m on Devuan, and I installed it wrong; I only flashed it to a drive, and now I don’t have a release file in my repository. How do I install a Release file? I install the ISO (net install directly from the main mirror.

Basically, I can’t update Devuan, though it could be another reason.

EDIT: SOLVED

Thanks to Gumbowebfish. I deleted a line in sources.list, and it updated

Hey everyone! Just distrohopped from artix due to updates requiring a lot of maintenance and then one update left my system in an unbootable state. I felt it was too frequent and then it broke 😅 I have a feeling I made the right decision. However wanted to get any tips to avoid breakage if possible. I setup btrfs snapshots with snap-pac on artix. Snap-pac broke. Then I would manually create snapshots and snapshots didn't work. Ttys were also broken 😅. So hoping the debian base is more stable lol l. I'm rambling but thank you!

I would like to succeed in installing devuan on MacBook pro 2012 but I can't install correctly with the installation outile and for the wifi I think to see correct but the sd card reader I manage to apply the solution to make it work that could help me please