Does bilibop use a lot of RAM?

How many is too many? All hard disk writes are happen in RAM. You can use noatime, nodiratime options for FS. Then all logs, /var. /tmp are in the RAM.
By default tmpfs is limited by 1/2 of RAM and you can change this value. To give you an idea, I'm using it even on very old laptop with 8 Gb RAM and no SWAP! But ... I prefer to keep only one browser with around 30 pages open and not 2 or 3 browser while watching video on this machine.

32 Gb of RAM, no swap, default tmpfs everything works perfectly: couple of browsers, video and ... virtual machine with 8 GB of virtual RAM or small local LLM.

I am using the traditional "full disk"-encryption with luks, that leaves /boot unencrypted.

+1

Best balance simplicity/security.

Borrowing from Kappa above here is what fixed it for me, and essentially only going to pulse audio.  basiclly purged everythign and reinstalled pulseaudio.  On reboot set the mixer, saved - next reboot it worked.

#purged everything
sudo apt-get purge wireplumber pipewire-alsa pipewire-audio pipewire pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pavucontrol pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pipewire pipewire-bin pipewire-pulse
#re-installed pulseaudio
sudo apt install wireplumber pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pavucontrol pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pipewire pipewire-bin pipewire-pulse

System
OS: Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur) x86_64
Host: HP ProDesk 400 G3 DM
Kernel: Linux 6.12.96+deb13-amd64
DE: Xfce4 4.20
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500T (4) @ 3.30 GHz

system has a horrible internal single speaker; Sound bar plugged into the headphone jack for speakers

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CX20632 Analog [CX20632 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Note sysvinit has no service supervision, so it'll say tlp-pd is "started" even if it later exited or crashed. Check that the process is actually alive.
The manual suggests tlp-pd takes a '--debug' flag, that's probably worth a look too.

and a funny Story setting my umask - long Story short:

1.) my old Approach

cat ~/.bashrc.d/set_umask

# ...
# umask 0077
# ...

works fine in Shell Context, but not in Desktop Context, e.g. for Dolphin

2.) ALL tried Solutions (/etc/login.defs, pam_umask.so etc.) DID NOT WORK - WHY - ANY IDEAS ?

3.) Finally, setting the desired umask in /etc/passwd WORKS:

sed -i 's/:\/home\/user:/umask=077:\/home\/user:/' /etc/passwd

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 04a9:1909 Canon, Inc. CanoScan LiDE 110

sudo adduser [yourname] saned
sudo adduser [yourname] scanner

nano /etc/udev/rules.d/65-libsane.rules

# for Cannon LiDE110 add the following in 65-libsane.rules
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1909", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

then reboot your system.   The scanner should be working with sane-utils and i prefer to use simple-scan.

for what it is worth this scanner is working good, no color issues.

But, chances are you knew this already.

Could you take a video of the boot process with your phone etc and play it back slowed down to see what the messages are? If you are still stuck post it somewhere we can read it.

@Camtaf: The live installer does not need internet to work and does not download anything. If you notice that something is missing for it to work, let me know and I'll add it to the next build.

• skalibs

• execline

• s6

• s6-rc

• s6-portable-utils

• s6-linux-utils

• s6-linux-init

and put it all to /usr/local. With this out of the way, it should function. I don't frequently monitor forums, but if somebody decides to try it out, I'm here and on the Gentoo forum for the most part. It's really simple so everybody should be able to tinker it without much effort, but maybe you want to rub the quality in my face etc

Some GOTCHAS:

• when you use s6-linux-init-maker modify -p to include /usr/local/bin

• when you use s6-linux-init-maker  remember that PID 1 doesn't have /usr/local/bin in its PATH, so edit the generated init execline script to invoke /usr/local/bin/s6-linux-init

• if you compile manually execlineb is in /usr/local/bin, but is expected to be in /bin, so either symlink, or use the Devuan package

• udevadm from eudev does not provide the -w/--setle flag for trigger, so it will take quite a bit of time for all events to settle, unlike e.g. on Gentoo which uses a standalone udev binary directly from systemd. As an option try commenting it out and see how it goes.

## The iwd.service is the systemd service for the iNet Wireless Daemon (iwd), a wireless management daemon developed by Intel for managing Wi-Fi connections on Linux systems.
##  It is designed to be a lightweight, efficient alternative to older tools like wpa_supplicant, offering minimal memory and CPU usage, built-in support for WPA/WPA2 and WPA3, and a command-line interface (iwctl) for managing wireless networks.
##  To use iwd, the service must be enabled and started using the commands sudo systemctl enable iwd.service and sudo systemctl start iwd.service.

## The service is controlled through the iwctl utility, which provides an interactive shell for managing wireless devices, scanning for networks, connecting to Wi-Fi, and viewing connection details.
##  For automatic network configuration, including DHCP and DNS resolution, iwd can be integrated with systemd-networkd or systemd-resolved, though additional configuration may be required for full functionality.
##  For example, if using resolvconf for DNS management, the iwd.service may need to be customized to include RuntimeDirectory=resolvconf and ReadWritePaths=/etc in its [Service] section to resolve permission issues with /run/resolvconf.

# apt install iwd -y
#
# sh /home/glenn/bin/sysd2v-0.3.sh /lib/systemd/system/iwd.service
# rsync -avh /home/glenn/local/other/backup/backup-etc-sys/etc/init.d/iwd.initd /etc/init.d/
# rsync -avh /home/glenn/local/other/backup/backup-etc-sys/etc/runlevels/iwd.initd /etc/runlevels/
# rsync -avh /home/glenn/local/other/backup/backup-etc-sys/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/iwd.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/
# chmod +x /lib/systemd/system/iwd.service
# chmod +x /etc/init.d/iwd.initd
# service iwd.initd start
# update-rc.d iwd.initd defaults

link to "You could try the sysd2v-0.3.sh conversion script, that might work:" http://www.trek.eu.org/devel/sysd2v/

I hope this helps

prerequisites: The personal computer node should have haptic features that enable inserting live install media from users with different preferable sensor types / aquity level . User should have the physical media or have a computer with the installer running with poweron.

Installer should probe the user in a dialogue to agree on the preferable UI-display-input typed to use. Installer would probe first the hardware to see available UI devices .

So eg:
- (Installer) Hi User. Look,feel,hear all you devices of your computer. In you computer there are these output display types and these input types. State your preferences.

- (Installer) Hi User. Do you suffer from RSI ? I could install packages that prioritize input from less hand stressing devices.

Aligning with stated preferences the Distro should prioritize software tagged approprietely. For example : If a user states Display:Haptic Input:main-Sound,fallback braille keyboard then the Distro should install packages that can align with that choice. So in that case there is would be need for X11 but a haptic-display-server that can mediate access to that kind of device for different haptic friendly processes.  If a user states Display/Visual/Text oriented  distro could prioritize tmux over X11 and userspace land that can align with that. 

The core idea here being that all IO hardawe could be used but the installer would prioritize packages aligning with the prefered interaction styles.