Just an update, PayPal customer service  actually rang me, I couldn't believe it!
They said that nothing on their end is blocking the transaction, and it could be an issue with the client.
I'm wondering if this is something to do with the button code on the donation page ?
Hopefully someone in the Devuan team can look into this.

Thanks
Rue.

This is excellent news! Thank you.

Interesting, I had a misbehaving browser today actually, Firefox + Youtube stream = misbehaving browser.
I never thought of adding xkill to the panel, that's a good Idea. Certainly faster than trying to open a terminal while Firefox slowly melts my laptop into the Earths core.  I'm going to try this out right now.
Thanks!

Yes I saw this too,
I see Hex DSL has modified his site too, he also has some interesting scripts to do with Gemini too. Just haven't had time to look at them yet.

I understand where you are coming from but I am optimistic, and I like to think that communities will come together for common good and put differences aside. It's in my nature i guess.

I guess if it is too heavy with unwanted applications you could go with the net install or advanced and choose what applications you want during install.

If you are looking for a minimal system you could try Devuan Minimal-Live, be warned through, it is what it says, Minimal, no xorg or desktop. I have it installed on my old Pentium III laptop it runs like a charm

Agreed, for me the idea of digital minimalism is not becoming a digital monk and living in a cave as such, though with the madness in the world, sometimes that does sound appealing. I think it is about less clutter and minimising the bloat, using the tools you need but not going with out, I think we all know how easy it is to bloat our computers, and of course some OS's conveniently do it for you

It's funny as I'm writing this, looking at my Kubuntu desktop I have three different browsers open, SeaMonkey for this, Chrome for work "because I have to use it"
and Firefox for services I am logged into Youtube, Email etc.  I'm not doing very well as a digital minimalist at the moment

Yes indeed Servers are fun, I run one or two myself, I guess I was thinking. Servers are sort of a specialist area where as Desktop is more widely general use.
I guess you could say a server is more lean by design maybe? Depending on what the server is used for of course.

ruenoak

WOW! Really interesting answers, people are quite diverse in what they need  and use.
This is what makes GNU+Linux so great, we have the freedom to choose and customise to our needs.

Yes it will probably become the next hipster fad Digital Minimalism, and yes I think they will probably all be using macs “bloated by design” because of their marketing.

The guy in the interview said he just uses a browser but doesn’t mention the plethora of cloud centric applications he might be using. It made me think though, for people who use their computers productively in various areas of work, and not just as overly priced electronic fashion accessories. What applications do they need?  It will vary greatly depending on what you do.
I think this person managed  various things, so yes I could see him working out of a browser with the help of plug-ins and cloud applications.

There’s no wrong answer as everyone’s  requirements are different.
My initial question was based around a similar setup as he would have. A Mac with OSX and what ever comes with it. So mine was, my Thinkpad with Devuan Beowulf 3.1 – default desktop setup.
I wasn’t looking at the server side of things.

Looks interesting, always good to see whats out there. I'm using Ariane by OppenLab https://oppen.digital/ on android, looks like you can get it for fdroid too. Not cross platform though.

@yeti yes cross protocol browsers would be nice, even in the form of an addon

Thanks dice ,yes that is what I initially thought was happening, I was somehow disabling the wifi.

Update:
I have managed to get the wifi working while out and about but not sure what I did or what the original cause of the problem was.
1. At home I configured my laptop to connect to my mobile hotspot.
2. Went out again and turned on laptop - opened Wicd and no networks available as before.
3. Enabled my mobile hotspot and refreshed Wicd and there was my mobile hotspot and about 10 other nearby wifi networks showing.

So it seems for some unknown reason I needed a configured network to be in range for Wicd to initiate the detection of other networks.
I disabled the hotspot and rebooted the machine again, then refreshed Wicd with the hotspot disable and it found various networks in range, enabled the hotspot and it found that too.
So I think I will say its working now and solved, with a caveat that it seem to be an anomaly with this laptop, as I have had Devuan and other distributions on various laptops in the past and have never come across this issue before.

Thanks
ruenoak