I'm the new kid here, and frankly, a technophobe. I'm especially frightened of the dreaded terminal, so until recently I have always used the "hand-holding" distributions with GUI-everything. My phobia is irrational, of course, but it just feels like I could mash the wrong button and ignite the Earth's atmosphere and kill every living thing on the planet by accident. Anyway ...

I went to RefractaOS to find "a GUI way to install Devuan," and I have to say:

While it isn't as newbie / kid / grandparent / technophobe - friendly as calameres or whatever, it's superb if the user pays attention to what they're doing. My hand-me-down desktop has two HDDs, and I wanted to be sure I didn't wipe away my other OS. But I didn't know whether it was sda or sdb or what. But there's a little window to tell me that the Samsung HDD was sda and the other is sdb.

If not for the little window to tell me which was which, I would have aborted the install for fear of destroying my existing OS.

Since installation and customization (Xfce, favorite browser, Evolution for email and Xournalapp for school stuff, etc., making an installable copy was easy with refracta snapshot. However, installing the new snapshot was impossible because I didn't include the installer in my OS.  Silly boy me.

It works great! Just for giggles I might try it with calameres because why not. I'll report back after I've tried it.