Hi, brilliant and thank you for sharing

Question , the part around "Since 2026-02-01, Debian-13 rejects signatures using SHA1 used in the NV D-12 repo. Additionally, D-13 migrated signature verification tool from gpgv to sqv that does not accept additional options from apt sources. To workaround it all, you need to......"

Does that compromise security in any material way for a home laptop user, and did you have to follow this part of the guide?

Appreciate your advice. Cheers

Hi
Another thought following your point re the mess using the Nvidia run files causes. That is use of containerisation.

Reading this post, developers are using that concept by putting the driver in the opt folder https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/c … /124836/15

However they are having to use the the utility prefix,  open gl prefix and 32 bit compatibility libraries to avoid messing up the usr bin folders and the usr libraries. The prefixes used and what they do is in the Nvidia installer code options section https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-instal … on_table.h

We can see in this post that a user called wild tux https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/l … tall/46411 had to set x prefix back to usr.
These links help infer the risk of having X11  items sandboxed and hence why the defaults for these are not to sandbox to avoid a display server crash

This is far as I have got. I then started getting a bit lost. It would need someone with more experience to advise if this kind of approach has any legs

Hi
I did a bit of reading as I have a 4k screen on my laptop with the same card,  but no idea if this would work. I haven't got round to trying to set up the Nvidia card on it at all.

1. The Cuda drivers are proprietary not open source.
2. The Nvidia guide talks of creating a preferences.d file to ensure pinning is applied to ensure only the 580 version is used when later updates are run https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesl … cking.html
3. The log file here explains why the pinning method is advised by Nvidia https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/d … nts/353805
4. The NVDC section of the Debian wiki advises to use the pinning method with caveats. https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsD … 2_.26_D-13

This might or might not help. I am new to Devuan and not a developer, but sharing incase of use

It's a nice thing to offer but how would you find the boundary? Eg 2.4 GHz Bluetooth clash with 2.4ghz WiFi card, throwing the wifi is not a Devuan problem though not the desired result on install, or xfce tiny writing on 4k screen upon install, but fine on another lower res laptop etc.....

I thought that there is a clear rule which goes
   
Devuan Version: Debian version  -7 ie take the first debian version where system d is the default init which is where devuan got rid of it hence Devuan 1 forked Debian 8

Hence why
Devuan 6 forks Debian 13 (most recent stable)
Devuan 5 forks Debian 12

Devuan 7 fork Debian 14 (so testing)
So if you know the Debian versions and the first where system d became default, then devuan version is easily mapped?

And then you always map Devuan Ceres to Debian Sid as a constant for unstable?

I solved the above by entering the QT Scale command in the /usr/local/vpn.ac/bin/run script directly as that script had a pkexec command so nothing else I tried worked. If I shouldn't have added the QT scaling command there please let me know

I'm trying to make the text and window size bigger for the vpn.ac client on my system because it's too small to read on the 4k display
I know the app is made with QT, and the path to launch it is /usr/local/vpn.ac/bin/run.
How can I force this specific app to scale up so I can read the buttons properly?

I think I'm meant to use  QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2 on the EXEC line reading the QT manual, but not sure where best to place it ie in what file.
Thank you

Fascinating topic. I hated the way Microsoft was getting too overwhelming with all the features, forced AI and updates etc on my laptops. Then windows 10 was no longer supported. I would have had to landfill 2 laptops (one with 4k screen and 16gm ram,). I am non technical and busy with my own commitments but curious about this thing called Linux. I asked AI and Gemini suggested Ubuntu , Linux Mint and for my very old 2008 laptop (4gb ram but SSD drive), Devuan. I had never heard of these. It explained Devuan is a fork of Debian created by VUAs. It will ruin flawlessly etc. I took the plunge, not knowing what system d was or anything really and realised Devuan needed a load of config . Using AI , forum help and perseverance I got the old 2008 laptop set up in a few days and now implementing on the 4k laptop. The topic of "init freedom" kept coming up. I had to figure out what that meant. At the end of it I realise that building one thing to do something properly and connect to next thing is brilliant, instead of building a complicated mess with no transparency. I apply that philosophy where I can in every day work now eg the way I will construct a spreadsheet or think about solutions. Without AI making me aware of Devuan's existence, and learning how to do/ not to do things, I wouldn't have got here. But then with AI it's easy to get lazy or degrade quality of output or principles. My wife played around on my laptop and found it so transparent, and thought it was so cool that devuan was founded on values that stand against corporate greed, and a reminder of human ability to be more conscious in choices instead of illusionary freedom, she is switching to Devuan on her laptop.  Maybe I am not a desired user of Devuan (not sure), given my use of AI in the story, but the principles behind the distro are what makes me use Devuan as my only operating system of choice (plus it runs absolutely brilliantly. I haven't had a single crash, screen freeze or forced restart. Laptops are running blazing fast. Bluetooth is flawless. WiFi connection is instant and way better. Performance is amazing, wireless printer connects and locks in, no cut out. Nothing undesired, nothing forced on my laptop). The excellence should never be compromised.

Hi, thank you for the advice. I haven't started the project yet. I will be looking to start in the next week or so. Will update.

Thank you. I'll take a look