Please feel free to move this to "Other topics", or elsewhere if another section is more appropriate.  Two questions and accompanying comments.  Today was my first encounter with Devuan, and the overall experience was largely positive--thank you.

1.  Printer:  effortless.  Worked very well.  Thanks to all.  Question is coming....  First:  a dozen odd (and some "old", but all 64 bit) computers running Debian, Mint 19.3, or 20.0.   A fresh install of 19.3 is accomplished just as easily as today's install of Devuan Beowulf.  No such luck, however, with Mint 20.  Reason, I guess, is because Ubuntu no longer supports 32 bit drivers for my printers, scanners, etc....all of which, themselves, work just fine, though they are a decade or so, old.  I am not flush with cash, and reluctant to discard something just because a shiny new toy exists.  I am keeping my printers and scanners, and hoping that I will continue to find a Linux version to support them, though they are connected via Win XP software, on a separate computer running that antique operating system.  Question:  How long will I be able to use Beowulf, to print, or, is the future looking just as bleak, as it does, for Mint 20 --where my devices no longer function?

2.  Sound:  Wow, felt like back in 1980 running Unix on a Dec VAX.  Very primitive, completely the contrary to the experience with Mint 16, 17....20.   This is to my way of thinking, a killer, for this OS, if it isn't possible to fix, in a forthcoming iteration.  Of course, could be user fault.  This is my first experience, and four hours later, I still haven't solved the issue.  Granted, unlike the first hour, I do have sound!!!  hurrah.  BUT, the road isn't obvious, nor does it work, simply by turning on the computer, as everything else does.   In the olden times, we had to type, for example, startx, which was a user interface to the X-Windows system.  How many users of Devuan would be pleased to know that they could see the desktop, whenever they wanted, just by typing startx ?  I don't want to type startx.  I want the desktop to work when I turn on the computer.  Ditto for sound.   More than an hour of fiddling, editing obscure files in /etc, and so on, I STILL DON"T HAVE audio, unless I open a terminal, and yes, TYPE, no, not startx, but rather, pulseaudio --check   followed by pulseaudio -D.  N.B.  (nota bene) these two commands work, and work well, however, one must not type pulseaudio -check, or pulseaudio --D.    Those hash marks, i.e. hyphens, must be spaced and elaborated, exactly as shown.  WHY?  Why must I type these two commands with their oddly asymmetric hyphens, every time I boot the computer, as if "startx", all over again?  (mind you, startx was  itself, an improvement, three decades ago, over the alternative!!!)

cheers,
caieng