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Welcome aboard.......Devuan is Debian without systemd.
@ zephyr
My apologies, I thought that I remembered you & Miyo discussing how to do some things on here...
I could never get on with Chrome/Chromium, so have always used Firefox, occasionally Dillo, & have tried to use text browsers too, the internet has become an advertising space for corporations, far removed from its original purpose...
I stopped using Youtube when forced to watch adverts, & only returned to it when we could block them - so if everyone did so, they'd soon lose all their revenues..
@ Ron
Check out Crowz, (partially created with help from MIYO), it's a neat little system.
I just wish someone/distros would revive TinyX.......
Grub, by default, no longer looks for other operating systems....
Welcome aboard.
Weak processor + minimal DE
Wyse Dx0Q 1.5GHz Quad Core AMD GX-415GA Radeon HD8330E graphics
Slow, but I still use XFCE & FF on it....
If you want it to look like Mint, just use Mint.....
Devuan has its own look & feel....
But, you can modify it if you want, that's what Linux is all about.
3.2GB installed Daedalus/XFCE.
It's not a disk hog like MSWindows.....
I have to click a button to get mine working/switched on.
Apart from adding to the menu, I find JWM to be an ideal WM, just move the panel to the top of the screen.
are you happy with all the old and new wm's for simple small distros?
Yes, I am.
I use apt-get & it's working on my Daedelus installs from the live XFCE & from Crowz....
Did you use sudo? Did you update first?
If 'startx' doesn't work, you need to install xorg & a WM/DE.
(It's been a while since I last installed it to a RPi....)
Well......we still have an unadulterated command line available - perhaps we will have to just go back to using that!
They tried that before, & lost a lot of their programmers, & users, & created a lot of bad blood!
Haven't they learned their lesson yet! - Linux is about freedom of choice!
Thankfully, it caused Devuan to be born in the first instance, if they do it again, many users will (possibly) ditch Devuan as well, if it isn't an easy job to continue using Debian as a base!
Having had a sniff at Ventoy I see that it uses an exfat filsystem, which is not included in preamble.gz. Perhaps it's sufficient to add that ...
EDIT: no it's not sufficient.
I download the Linux version - https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html
Camtaf wrote:.. each distro is added to the Ventoy start menu, from which you start the desired distro..
The daedalus ISO offers a menu of alternative boot methods; does "start the desired distro" start with presenting that menu?
The ISO is further a hybrid ISO with 3 separate boot equipments that cater for different use cases: whether the media is presented as a harddisk or a cdrom and whether the boot loading is by legacy or UEFI bios. Which use case does Ventoy present?
Ventoy will start up in either MBR or UEFI, depending on your computer, & it starts the distro as it would start if it was the only one on a pendrive, all boot options of the distro remain available.
Just in case we are not clear, you create a Ventoy pendrive from the files downloaded, then you copy your distros onto the pendrive, each distro is added to the Ventoy start menu, from which you start the desired distro, when you shut down the distro, Ventoy asks you to press return/enter key to finish using the distro, so that you can remove the pendrive.
Because Ventoy loads the chosen distro, it will run as it would if it were the only distro on the pendrive - so, I expect a net install .iso will allow you to install to your chosen disk.
I regularly ran Devuan/XFCE on a 2GB ram / 1.2GHz dual core thin client, I even ran it with just 1GB ram as an experiment on a single core thin client, it was a little slow, but even the internet was usable.
It's lightning fast on my 2GB ram converted Chromebook.
I don't know if a net install will work, but Devuan Live will install OK from a Ventoy pendrive, as will Crowz (JWM) - & lots of other distros.
Welcome aboard.
Could just be that particular cable - I occasionally use a 30ft cable without problems, (Devuan/XFCE), & have used a 'coupler' to add an extra 10ft cable also without problems.
Welcome aboard.
Why not tell us something about yourself.....