I'm quite impressed with this beta4 release, wifi was one of the things that clinched it for me, to make it worthwhile installing to bare metal - I now have it installed to an old HP G62 laptop as well.

Check F6 in alsamixer, it may be trying to use the wrong output....

Also, if using pulseaudio, again, check that it is using the right output....

(Default output is HDMI if I remember.)

I'd like to see/have a live/installable WM based Devuan - call it Light/Basic/or whatever, just needs a WM, terminal, file browser, web browser to start with, allowing most things to be done that a basic O/S needs - all other software can/could easily be added by the user, as & when needed - with the possibility of persistence, (that would be a big bonus) - but I know we only have a small team who could/can make these things happen, so not expecting it anytime soon......

I think frame buffers allow graphics in the (virtual) terminals, don't they(?).

Lots of older computers available online pre used, that's where I get all of mine these days.

Towers go quite cheaply, as everyone seem to want small quiet computers these days, (me included).

Take a look at the resellers of company pre used computers on Ebay.

Most distros will load necessary drivers when booting up a computer, as long as the needed drivers can be found on the system.

On Devuan, they are kept in the /Firmware directory, & get loaded by the boot process, I think it is the initrd.img that searches for them & actually loads them into kernel space, ready for using.

What am I about to read?

All the documentation on the BSDs, again, as I have just acquired a lot of thin clients which need an O/S....

(It's been a while since even using OpenBSD as my desktop, never really got on with FreeBSD, but I shall be giving it another tryout, as will NetBSD be getting a further spell on one of them; & NomadBSD too.)

Well, I reckon that will keep me occupied this Winter......

...& most of the Russian people seem to disagree with what is happening, but are powerless to do anything about it, unfortunately.

Looks like it's a meta package that has slim as a dependancy - I'd try installing lightdm first, then see if it still wants to remove xfce.

Snapshot works well on a regular system, but I noticed this -

& wondered if that overrode making a 'live' - I suggest to try just making a 'live' system.

(I've changed the working directory before, & that works, but I haven't tried writing it to a different disk/partition.)

There are keys at the top of your laptop keyboard which set which monitor is used.

Options are usually internal (laptop), external, or both.

Edit: You could also remove the laptop screen completely if it's broken, I did this on one of mine.

Ha, ha, I don't watch Netflix - my computer is for the internet, forums, playing music, etc.