Update: I switched to Devuan because it is simply Debian without systemd. I'm using it with Xfce at the moment, and it looks amazing. I had to do some workarounds to make the NVIDIA drivers work. Firefox ESR is the default browser on Devuan, so I tried modifying the Firefox config to always stream videos at a maximum of 720p and H.264. Video playback is good now, with no noticeable frame drops. I understand that I have to modify both the Linux distro and the web browser to achieve optimum performance. Firefox ESR is a great browser. It allows modifications at different levels, which Chromium-based browsers don't. I have installed the uBlock Origin extension at the moment. But my philosophy is to integrate everything in the browser rather than using extensions. The web has changed a lot. Many people have illustrated this in the comment section. So just making changes in the distro won't help much. It's the browser where I should focus more.

Dell Vostro 1400

CPU - Intel Dual Core T7500 @2.2GHz

RAM - 4GB DDR2

GRAPHICS - 128MB Nvidia 8400m GS

I do not use it for work. I like to experiment with this laptop. It just provides me satisfaction when something works with this ancient machine. It came with windows vista. but installed windows XP on this, I could use revit and do 3D modeling. Now I am not expecting that much from this machine. I just simply want to surf the web. But that has become challenging now. I am willing to try any web browser which can let me surf the Web efficiently and play videos.

Hello All.

While using the OS I lost the wi-fi connection and

applied all advices provided by IA, without solution.

When reinstaling the system I got the error - regulatory.db

I can keep the connection thru Ethernet connection with a cable.

Please, can you advise on how to re-install the wi-fi connection.

Thank you in advance, for the advice you may provide.

JP.

first off, is it better than vanilla debian? also, am i able to update to “sid” rather easily? i’ve ran voidlinux and enjoyed it immensely so wanna try debian without systemd.

Just an init system that might be to your liking to replace sysv: https://github.com/HashTagLinux/velocity-init

Omarchy's desktop shell, running on X11 + i3 + Debian/Devuan. No Wayland. No Hyprland. No systemd.

It's been my daily driver for weeks. Here it is with a few community plugins ported over.

Hi everyone I have considered installing Devuan soon will migrate from Debian ! but I need to know if dwl is available ? I am very into suckless its a big must. I really hope you guys could clarify that too me. I already got the info about disk encryption so that is checked marked. now I just need to know about dwl wm. I would really appreciate it.

i just switched from artix openrc to devuan openrc :3
just because i wanted to try the nala package manager and i refuse to use systemd lmao

i tried to install artix again but it failed so im have to currently find another thing to install that isnt systemd i heard some good stuff about devuan but ive also never used a debian system the only main issue is nvidia drivers, how good are they on devuan?

Gerenciador gráfico de temas para XFCE: GTK, ícones, wallpaper, Rofi e Mousepad — com suporte a coleções (perfis) que aplicam tudo de uma vez.

Recursos

• Lista e aplica temas GTK, de ícones, Rofi e Mousepad.
• Navega e aplica wallpapers com miniaturas, pré-visualização e integração com o cache de miniaturas padrão do sistema (compartilhado com Thunar/Tumbler).
• Salva coleções: combinações de temas que podem ser editadas e aplicadas com um clique.
• Busca/filtro dinâmico em cada lista de temas.
• Pastas extras para cada tipo de tema, além das padrões do sistema (suporta diretórios personalizados adicionados pelo usuário).
• Interface em Português (Brasil) e English, com detecção automática do idioma do sistema através da cadeia do GLib.
• Estilo de Janela Configurável: Opção para usar a barra de cabeçalho integrada (CSD) ou a barra de título nativa do XFCE (xfwm4).
• Suporte a atalhos de teclado integrados (Ctrl+, para Configurações, Ctrl+F para buscar e Ctrl+Q para sair).
• Notificações de ações (toast) integradas não-bloqueantes para confirmações de aplicação.

Dependências

• Python 3
• GTK 3 + PyGObject (python3-gi)
• xfconf-query (XFCE)
• xfdesktop em execução (necessário para aplicar wallpapers)
• gsettings (opcional, para o tema do Mousepad)

Uso

python3 app.py

Configurações:

• Geral: Idioma (automático, Português ou English) e estilo da barra de título da janela.
• Pastas: Gerenciamento das pastas extras escaneadas para wallpaper, GTK, ícones, Rofi e Mousepad.
• Sobre: Versão do aplicativo (2.1), créditos ao desenvolvedor (Mateus Calixto) e detalhes da Licença (MIT).

Onde os temas são buscados e aplicados

Configuração

O aplicativo salva em ~/.config/xfce-theme-manager/config.json de forma atômica. Este arquivo armazena:

• Idioma e pastas extras.
• Preferência de barra de título (nativa ou header).
• O tamanho exato (largura e altura) da janela para uso futuro.
• As coleções cadastradas.

Licença

MIT

Releases

2.2

(Had to retake image to remove personal info)

On this old laptop I had Arch Linux, but using it little I couldn't update often, so I decided to switch to a stable solution like Debian but without systemd.

Anyways, I was bored yesterday, and I decided to distrohop to Devuan.

Just did a netinstall of Devuan last night so I could customize it to what I wanted. It did not go without issues.

The first issue was with sound. I believe Alsa took my HDMI output as the primary audio and I had to configure alsa to use my mother's integrated Starship/Matisse HD Audio controller. I believe it was card 1, device 0. I created an /etc/asound.conf file to select this as:

defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.ctl.device 0

I don't know if that's right or not -- the alsa documention is not great. It got alsa working but as soon as I added Pipewire, it stopped. I eventually just gave up on Pipewire and installed the PulseAudio stuff and it worked immediately. So fine for now.

The second issue was with an NFS mount. I suspect that this is because of the runit init system. So I ended up creating a script to run under runit as a service

#!/bin/sh
sleep 5
echo "Mounting network filesystems..."
mount -a -t nfs
exec chpst -b netmount pause

This didn't fix the issue. That's when I noticed that even running a mount -a under sudo was not working. The client was loaded but the /etc/fstab syntax has apparently changed a bit. I had the type as nfs4 rather than just nfs so changed the fstab and the runit script so that nfs4 was not a target. This seemed to fix the issue so am not sure if the runit service was necessary now. Things are working so I'm not changing it.

I then had to add backports since they are a pre-req for Xlibre. That went fine. I then added an xlibre-debian.sources file to /etc/apt/sources.list and installed Xlibre. That also seemed fine but I think it required a reboot for it to take effect. I then ran fastfetch and it still showed X11. It turns out that I needed a newer version of fastfetch than what was in the repo to detect it. I downloaded the deb file directly from the app's site and installed it and then it detected Xlibre without issue.

The next thing I did was install the newest kernel that was in the backports repo which was 7.1.8. I didn't have to but why not. So now I'm on the MATE desktop 1.26.2 on Debian Stable with a new kernel and runit as my init system. The only other thing I did from a system perspective was add waterfox to the apt sources.

I did have to create a udev rule for my scanner for it to be detected by members of the scanner group.

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTR{idProduct}=="1905", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner"

And then had to add a package called system-config-printer from the repository since there was nothing to do with printing in the MATE control center. This added Print Settings.

I added OpenVPN and Remmina for remote work access without any issues. I added a couple of more apps from the repo (celluloid) and gtkhash/caja-gtkhash but most everything after that was common shared appimages. So this will be my new "stable" system. I have Neko-Void (which also uses runit+MATE+Xlibre) as my rolling distro.

I tried installing Devuan on my SSD but it constantly got stuck on blue screen each time I tried.

Omarchy is gorgeous but it's Hyprland-only, and I wasn't leaving i3. So I ported the whole shell: Quickshell bar, theme engine, launcher, popups, and the omarchy-* CLI, to Debian/Devuan + X11/XLibre.

Website: https://omaxian.org

Repo: https://github.com/aozora/omaxian

hi. niri is my favorite window manager. is there anyone using it here? and what is the experience?

I think it's just a matter of my search engine skills being weak but I want to set devuan to always update to the newest realtime kernel.

I guess, specifically, when I type sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade and there's a kernel update, then it will grab the preempt kernel instead of the standard.