Greetings. I just signed up to Dev1galaxy. I am a long time OS "tinkerer" level refugee trying to escape Window$, and now the Systemd monster. I do not have a computer science background. I have been running Devuan in a virtual machine for about half a year after learning about Systemd, and just now learned about such things as dbus, and other evil spawns of Systemd. I also just started messing around with distros such as Refracta. As such I want to thank you, and others who are working for freedom from the tracked-traced-and databased control overlords. I recently also installed Devuan on hardware, with a live Devuan in virt-manager for a family member, GUIfied everything I could (Cinnamon, with the Win 7 theme stuff, appimage stuff, and other tinkering). I now will slowly try to figure out Refracta, and similar distros (the last live Refracta I tried worked except for the Tor browser), and later make an install on hardware as able. I am just a regular non tech person tinkering slowly, but persistently. I will let others know of your work as I am able.

I just wanted to give a small shout out for encouragement for those like you who are more liberty minded, and actively working for alternatives to evil tracking, and control. To other Lurkers, I encourage you to do what you can to help people like this fighting in the traditional Linux Desktop World, as well as communities such as the de-googled phone world, alt email world (like Session Messenger), and so forth. They need it.