@rolfie

Yes, Devuan 6.1.0.

@rolfie

Thank you for the answer.

When installing Devuan, the installer asked me if I wanted to add repos and I said yes. My sources.list, after booting to the fresh install, looks like this:

deb cdrom:[Devuan GNU/Linux 6.1.0 excalibur amd64 - desktop 20251225]/ excalibur contrib main non-free non-free-firmware

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main non-free-firmware

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main non-free-firmware

# excalibur-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
# see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware

After trying to update via sudo apt update, apt warns be about not detecting a CD (the usb that I installed Devuan with) and halts. A '#' puted at the beginning of its line solves this.

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Thing is, Devuan detected that I have internet (asking me to connect to a wifi), it connects, then after a few steps, it asks me if I want to add sources (apart from the "CD/DVD" one). If I clicked yes to that, and Devuan doesn't automatically delete or comment with a '#', it means that something is not working as expected. When installing Debian Trixie, last step of installation is "Removing CD/DVD source from sources.list...", This doesn't happen to me on Devuan Excalibur.

If someone has the same problem I would be glad to know it, and if this only happens to me, I would investigate about this on my (little) free time. Thanks!

Good morning to all of you:

First of all, I didn't think that a lot of people would answer to me. Thank you for the attention.

Secondly, I have a few things to say:

I think that the better way to add things here, as users or as developers, is to be constructive. It isn't very useful to be aggresive or ignore other people.

Answering to you all:

@Elyon

I would use distros like Zorin or LMDE, but hibernating my laptop is a must-do on choosing my distro, and I don't know why, with distros that uses systemd this seems to be unarchievable. Tried to solve it for weeks, with 2 different laptops, without any archievement.

Hibernating my laptop is not a whim, or a caprice; but a must-have, as I use my laptop on my uni without charging it and sometimes I need to stop using it temporarily.

@brocashelm

I would prefer to use a Debian derivative, just a personal choice. But, I have tried to install slackware, and I just gave up on the installation because itself selected an EFI partition to use that I didn't want. Maybe I was doing things wrong. Maybe someday I'll try Salix.

In fact, I used Kubuntu for almost 3 years without distroswapping. The thing that made me change to Debian was that Ubuntu forced the use of Snap in their OS, so in my case, this affected me because a program (Spain's Gov. AutoFIrma) couldn't "sync" with FIrefox. After that I read about all Canonical's decisions and I really don't liked them at all.

@rations

I would like to have sound without configuring anything at all. I mean, in other OOTB distros I don't have to choose between Pipewire or Pulseaudio. Normally that decision is the dev's one, and I've seen that almost all distros are defaulting to Pipeware, I hope for the best.

@swanson

Yes, normally after installing a distro is time to tinker it to have a configuration that makes you more confortable, like buying a car and adjusting it to you.

In my case, I think about that for things like: changing the theme, maybe the panels location, fonts, energy, display, etc... but sound is like a basic thing, imagin, using your same example, that you buy a car and the lights don't work. Yes, you can drive a car without lights. Yes, you can use your computer without sounds, It will be more difficult, or less confortable using it? Maybe. @steve_v said a better analogy with "crawl into the footwell and connect the wiring for the radio".

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Thing is, right now I am using Excalibur with XFCE as my main OS. Almost all work OOTB, including audio. Telling that audio don't work on Plasma was just a comment, i was just trying KDE Plasma.

I don't have a lot of free time as I need to go to uni and study, but sure, if I had the time, I would really love to contribute to this wonderful project that is Devuan. I like a lot the philosophy that has UNIX that is that a program will do one thing and do it well.

Thank you all for all the comments!

Props to all the admins and developers that contribute to this distro in their free time and without a regular salary! (I suppose)

Please don't hate each other, team up and don't give up !

Thank you for the answer, steve_v. I would mark this as solved but I see doing what says in the release notes more like a workaround (but more robust than the .sh I wrote before) than a proper solution that needs to be addressed upstream, by devuan devs and not by the final users.

I mean, I supposed that Devuan was, like Debian or other "mainstream" distros, a distro ready to use, or at least, without inconsistencies, which is not the case... so Devuan devs think that we as final users of the distro we need to configure manually these type of things? Or I am wrong thinking about Devuan being a mainstream distro, and in reality is a distro for advance users?

Thank you all for the answers.