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06-09-2023
I've been running Devuan Daedalus 5.0 in a VM for a little while now, I generally do this before I install on hardware.
I've used Devuan since it's initial release on and off and occasionally rage quit a few times, not over the distribution but comments on the forums, I have realised though, why should I let a dickheads comments on a forum stop me from using this distribution.
Devuan was born out of, I guess a dispute around a new init system called Systemd being implemented into Debian Linux and no other alternatives offered by Debian. Meaning no option during installation to install an alternative init system.
Now I don't begin to really understand the in's and out's, the pros and cons of Systemd vs other init systems such as SysV, there are people out there who are far more intelligent than I am about these technologies and are far more qualified to talk on the subject.
The reason I use Devuan is the community behind it, Dyne.org. I have followed Dyne since the beginning and have always liked what they do, so I use Devuan and also Ubuntu which uses Systend and they are both great!
Devuan Daedalus 5.0 comes with Xfce 4.18 and Kernel 6.1 and minimal by design.
I ended up installing it on my laptop, a Thinkpad X250 ,it works perfectly out of the box. The Xfce desktop is basically default, so I spend a few hours customising it to my liking. The great thing about Xfce is that it is so customisable, you can really create a unique desktop to call your own.
Anyway this is not a review of Devuan, just me rambling about a Linux distribution I like.
R.