[Discuss] Ordered a New Laptop

[slitt at troubleshooters.com (Steve Litt)]

Kent Borg said on Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:58:21 -0700

>On 8/20/24 18:51, Rich Pieri wrote:
>> As a full time user of [Devuan] ...  
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>The things I am worried about are:
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>- Hardware compatibility. If Debian works (I'm thinking it does), how 
>likely is Devuan?

99%

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>- Navigating the installer. Putting btrfs on top of encrypted LVM 
>doesn't seem to involve who will be PID 0, right?

It might involve pid1 on Debian, but I'm sure not on Devuan.

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>- Suspend and hibernating to encrypted swap, and will it ever come
>back to life?

I don't know.

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>
>How much should a systemdectomy need to mess with these things? Other 
>than systemd trying to be the whole OS, it seems they should be pretty 
>orthogonal. Or am I wrong?

You're wrong. The systemd industry has worked hard to convince various
software projects to work exclusively with systemd. But I think the
only software that will be extremely difficult to run on a sans-systemd
system is Gnome.

As far as systemdectomy, Devuan does that for you. Devuan is as if
Debian had never gone systemd.

SteveT

Steve Litt 

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