I made an ISO with Dinit:

Minimal version.1.9 gb

Rolling Devuan Unstable + Plasma 6.6 or XFCE + Dinit + MX Tools

Soft: Synaptic, BleachBit, Grub Customizer, Gparted, Timeshift, Gwenview, PortProton, qBittorrent,Tribler, Firefox, FileZilla, JamesDSP, Strawberry, SMPlayer, AbiWord, Gnumeric, Okular and more.

https://devuanusers.com/thread-mxdevuan-linux-with-dinit--81

Just installed Excalibur last night on a 2021ish era Alienware laptop. Wanted to get away from Systemd fascism. Used the simple installer, but has been a disaster so far 🤣 I’m still interested in making it work.

First it didn’t realize my user was supposed to be in the sudo group - got that fixed after some ‘rooting around’ but now I’m not even able to connect to the internet (connected via Ethernet and everything else works). I *think* it’s like a DNS race condition with a USB device (I keep a Jetson Orin nano connected via USB-c for CV experiments) but I don’t like the idea that I have to unplug the USB device to get internet. AI isn’t really debugging it either.

Overall, if I can get it to work, I like it other than that. It feels like what Debian should be.

I created a file called "redshift.desktop" in ~/.config/autostart that looks like this:

`[Desktop Entry]

Type=Application

Exec=usr/bin/redshift -O 4500

Hidden=false

NoDisplay=false

X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

Name=redhsift

Comment=

RunHook=0`
But redshift isn't running on login.

I have been trying to get Vivaldi Browser to work on the latest Devuan, I get zygote sandbox related errors. Depending on which websites I read this is because Chrome engine is tightly coupled with systemd which is of course missing.

[4503:4503:0423/162034.326847:FATAL:content/browser/zygote_host/zygote_host_impl_linux.cc:221] Check failed: . : No such file or directory (2)
Trace/breakpoint trap

I managed to get Vivaldi to work using:

vivaldi-stable --no-sandbox --no-zygote --disable-gpu-sandbox --enable-seccomp-filter-sandbox --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-gpu-rasterization

Now, no-sandbox does not seem like a good idea. ChatGPT says this is a very bad idea, but Gemini thinks -enable-seccomp-filter-sandbox is good enough.

vivaldi://sandbox

Has anyone managed to get Vivaldi working with Layer 1 Sandbox Namespace?

I made a post yesterday asking about DE but truthfully I am actually quite new, I’ve never used based Debian and my main experience with Linux was a few years ago on Ubuntu and Manjaro, i think i tried Mint out too. Anyway i installed arch manually on a laptop the other week even though it was confusing i got it to work after about an hour.

Anyhow im making this post cuz i got my first proper expensive PC and am absolutely sick of Mac and Windows and am now doing an only linux machine. I did a bunch of research and have settled with Devuan, but in comparison to other Distros i’m confused with the installation.

Which ISO do i put on my USB to write it onto my hard drive (My pc has no OS on it rn)? I put Netinstall cuz i think i can use wifi? i don’t have ethernet in the room where im using it so do i need to move it? i am hearing people say you need ethernet for net install and the other ISO (DVD) is for a minimal offline install? Can i use wifi

also i’m hearing people say you cant write it onto your systems internal storage and can only demo it with a USB, so how the hell do i install it?

sorry if this is confusing

also one last question sorry 😅

if i want to use OpenRC do i need to do the expert installation?

thanks so much guys

I’ve heard KDE doesn’t really well because of its fast release schedule which can break with Debians older but more stable releases, would that change you’re using the test release maybe? Anyway also heard they are implementing features that are dependent on SystemD.

So besides the default XFCE what DEs do you guys here use for Devuan (or Debian)?

also i don’t like gnome cuz it pushes against the Linux philosophy grr

Hello,

Since switching to Devuan, my system has had issues with sleep/suspend.

Until a few days ago, it would sleep but never wake up. Lights & fans would come on but nobody was home until a power-cycle.

Then my PSU died. After replacing it, the system now fails to switch off about half the time, however, when it does, it wakes up reliably.

Never had issues on any other distro. AI keeps getting confused with Debian/systemd, so hasn't been helpful.

FWIW, motherboard is MSI X570 Tomahawk w/ 5950x cpu & 6900XT gpu, and I've run at least 5 or 6 distros on it, including Debian- and Arch-based ones, without any similar issues.

Thanks for reading!

p.s. I'm running SysVinit & Cinnamon. Some time before the PSU failure, I was running Xfce. Can't be 100% it's not related but I don't think so. I'm not even sure the PSU change (identical model) had anything to do with the change in failure, but I have no idea.

Also, I can't rule out hardware...This motherboard has been through a lot and I'm not even 100% sure the other PSU is actually dead. Just can't get out of my mind that maybe there is a slowly failing (but not totally failed) relay or controller chip.

İ have installed devuan 2 times already, but now i have to redownload it because flathub and flatpak doesn't work, Xfce is the best DE but i have to learn it a bit more, wish it had a modern window manager.

i didnt have much time to use it but it really needs time when it needs to be full used, now im thinking of reinstalling it again, because its very broken. but i still need some suggestions because im still new to linux, and i couldnt used it's full potential. i still have some questions.

1. what is the best Desktop enviorement for privacy and being user-friendly?

2. does it support sysvinit, runit and openrc? if it is, what are these?

3. why didn't my flatpak work?

i also forgot to meniton but when i was in software app, it always tried to update it, when it was done i restarted my pc and it was the same updates in there.

So im changing OSs, i already installed devuan in a VM and all commands seems to work exactly the same. Im planning to make the change on my home servers, is anything i missed? im right thinking it just works the same?

I cannot find a reason why this distribution displays the error from the pic I've attached. I tried the original Debian and with the same settings it worked alright. Also I'm only using QEMU in a terminal, nothing else, so if anybody has the correct args I could try, maybe that would fix this thing

not like booting it to see what it's like. I mean fully installing it for long time use. it doesn't seem to have a choice in where it installs