Hello everyone.
I just switched to Devuan from Debian/Mint with the intention of making it my official working distribution Since I can see from afar Microsoft's intentions with Windows to turn it into a subscription service, I prefer, when that happens, that the operating system change not be radical.
I've been using Debian for many years. Since version 3.0 Woody with Xfree86 as a graphical interface. And back then, Red Hat and SUSE were free but gave me more problems, so I ended up settling in and getting used to Debian.
Linux distributions have changed a lot these days, not only in terms of graphical desktops but also in how Linux works. Sometimes I miss the ease of configuring something by simply modifying one file, However, I also find the graphical configurations and the ease of many settings wonderful. But one thing I've never liked about Debian is their tendency to only stick to one path And that is the reason why have been created many distributions derived from Debian.
One of them is this, Devuan, The one I'm testing and want to make my main one. It keeps the old init systemV ( Systemd I don't like it, not because of the age field they added so that Linux can be used where they're going to implement it...Instead, it loads too many daemons and handles too many things at startup; a nightmare if something goes wrong.) and I would also like to try the new KDE, since GNU Wayland is slow for me and Xfce looks lacking on a modern computer.
Well, for now it seems everything is going well. The only thing I didn't like about Devuan is the installer; it's rather poor, and it also gave me an error when I tried to install the GRUB on a Windows partition that I had to install and configure manually from the terminal. The installer method should be copied from Ubuntu or Mint, which are excellent.
And that's all for now. I'll keep reading and commenting. Best regards.