I am a community moderator on the Framework Forums. I just recently have become VERY interested in Devuan. I have been running it in a VM for a while now, and have been test driving it on a Framework 13 12th gen Intel i7. On the live image I have been able to get things to work relatively easily.

I too have a MNT Pocket Reform, and while I love it, I am really bummed by how it is ultra dependent on Debian. I used to be a big fan of Debian but their instance to focus on things other than Debian has been real off putting.

That said, I just wanted to report that Devuan 5 seems to be working well out of the box. There are some small things that you need to do, but by an large things are working well.

From a durable laptop angle, i can only highly recommend it. You can repair everything on the laptop and affordably upgrade as new mainboards come out. Framework is really crushing it with how well they are sticking to their principles and continuing to support all of their products.