@steve_v
Don't take it seriously
I have the full impression that ChatGPT is already starting its third branch.

Regards.

I have a netbook with an AMD E-300 processor, but DE Trinity TDE is installed.
The brightness is adjusted without problems by the tdepowersave GUI program. At the same time, it contains all the power settings.

Regards.

It's Linux!
Nobody owes anyone anything, everyone does it for their own pleasure and our desires do not always coincide with the interests of the developers. Do it yourself, this is life, objective reality, I’m in the same position...

In my case the reason was the included repository

  deb http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/ unstable main    
  

Disabling it solved the problem.
Indeed, the libnm0 version in this repository is newer than the installable version of network-manager.

@oui
Thanks for the explanations, now I more or less understand the reasons for your problems.

Linux has never been distinguished by full-fledged drivers and firmware of peripheral devices, but by such exotic things as pens with sensors, and even more so. I try to avoid them, so I can hardly advise anything sensible.

The reason for different behavior of different kernels may be enabling/disabling some options when configuring the kernel for compilation. You can check this by comparing the files /boot/config-xxx.
The i915 lines obviously refer to the video driver.

But purely practically, maybe try PCLinuxOS?
There, uncle Texstar compiles kernels with the latest innovations and does not look back at licenses.

But this is just my guess, I have no experience with exotics.

Regards.

Do you want to laugh?
I just clicked “Magk All Upgrades” in the synaptic and this is what I saw

This is Daedalus 5.0

@The-Amnesiac-Philosophe

I tried it.
Here I told you what I did and what I received
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6118

  Regards.

Hobby is an irrational concept!

I have to, there is no sound in FF without pulseaudio, I asked for a recipe here on the forum, it doesn’t help.
And “garbage” in Brave is disabled in the settings, I also talked about this.

Here is another reason to use a Chrome based browser.
Because of its best video codec (Google's monopoly on YouTube), on my dead computer the video is played at a resolution a step higher than in FF, 720p without problems over the network.

But who prevents anyone from doing such a test with any browser?

P.S.About browsers.
In Chimaera 4.0 I used Iridium, pulled from PClinuxOS and converted into a deb package.
I tried it in Daedalus 5.0, the conversion ends with an error, although if you manually put the files extracted from the rpm package into the required folders, everything works.

@DelTomix

Not at all, no login screen
This is my computer, I am the only user, so WM is configured for automatic passwordless login.

“Minimalism” usually results in poking at the keyboard instead of just clicking on an application icon or menu item.

This is done very simply on systems with RPM packages.
In openSuse, I simply added any folder as a repository.

In Debian, only the CD-ROM (or USB flash drive) can be simply connected using

apt-cdrom

And the difficult path is described here, but only in Russian, I didn’t find another one.
https://wiki.debian.org/ru/CreateLocalR … DVD_Debian

I had a problem with writing a large file to a flash drive caused by a lack of memory.

/tmp was loaded into memory and there was simply not enough buffer space, the recording froze.
Then this was solved by removing /tmp from /etc/fstab.

But this was with the old kernel, later this error did not appear, apparently the new kernel allocates memory more correctly.

P.S. I'll add.
Then the error appeared when the size of the recorded file exceeded the size of the installed memory. Smaller files were recorded without troubleshooting.