refracta2usb also allows for persistence.  Don't know how current it is though.  Maybe fsmithred will stop by:
http://www.ibiblio.org/refracta/docs/re … ta2usb.txt

In Xfce (don't know about Mate) there is a separate option for choosing the window manager apart from the theme that changes the title bar.  You don't have to be stuck with gnome.

That's the way desktop icons work here on Xfce.  Old icon remains until new positioning is completed.

GTK3 and Adwaita theme sucks.  Clearlooks is GTK2 only so won't handle the GTK3 in synaptic. The standard scrollbars are shown by default in the Clearlooks-Phenix and the (improved) Clearlooks-Phenix-Dark-Purpy themes which work with GTK2 and GTK3.

Used to do a lot of ethnic dancing back then.   Balkan was always my fav.  There's nothing quite like a good gankino.  Now full circle 40 years later to this.  Hypnotic . . .

@GNUser . . . that's good news.  Keeping fingers crossed that you've seen the last of hung reboots.  Sorting this conflict consistently is one of the last things holding up the next release.

Seems I remember someone else fixed something similar by changing to slim.  slim and lightdm have different backends.  Might be worth a try.  Might also be off the mark.

There are many more typos than that.  I would have proofed it had I been asked.  Probably too late to make changes . . .

As to the link . . . that is the one that jaromil requested to be used.

Yup . . . The haiku version

Maybe it would be a better idea to start with a minimal install and build a DE piece by piece rather than trying to gut a full-blown default install.

I saw your email and discussed it with the admins.  They checked and auto.mirror is working.

Assuming the problem is at the source . . . you could switch to the newer repos at pkgmaster.devuan.org