My personal configuration is basically twice what you think you need for the root (/) partition, equal swap (/swap) with ram (if you want to 'hibernate'), (else what you think you want), the rest is for home (/home) - (which you will back up to external media every so often, in case you ever have to re install, or your disk goes bad).

The 'ratings' come from people who generally like to try new distros, they are not a popularity rating.

Once people find the distro for them, they seldom go back to Distrowatch, plus these are weekly download figures, many distro hoppers just download to try out new distros, & seldom stay with them more than a few weeks.

The above link gave me a 404 error, try this link
https://www.cocosenor.com/articles/comp … aptop.html

Maybe try (re)installing grub via a 'live' USB drive session(?).

All help will be gratefully received, I have no doubt, if I could be more useful, I would, but I'm just an end user, so I promote Devuan where I can, without making myself into a zealot.

Yep, I remember those posts - seems this person has some kind of memory loss....

We will likely be better off without them.

Actually, I had the same problem when I tried to boot from my dd'ed pendrive on my UEFI chromebook - the same pendrive has installed to 2 other MBR 64bit computers perfectly.

devuan_chimaera_4.0.beta_2021-08-27_amd64_desktop-live

Edit: Just to say that Beowulf (live desktop) installed to my chromebook before without any problems.

Just installed 64bit live to my old HP-G62, (2GB ram/2GB swap) - also installed 32bit live to an old Toshiba Satellite Pro, (1GB ram/2GB swap), both seem to be working fine.

Did you check that your download/s was/were good?

(Personally, never had a problem with the 'live' image.)

Possibly, your graphics aren't supported, but rare these days.

Check all physical connections, etc.

Many thanks!

I was needing the extra parameter with apt-get, (my 'usual' way of package management).

I think, if I remember right, you have only bought the right to use MS Windows, a kind of lease, you don't own it outright - which was another reason for using Linux for me.

I would prefer to use totally open software & hardware, but it won't happen, because companies spend billions to bring new products to market, to stay ahead of their competitors.

Not sure what to make of your comments, I have Devuan on all my RPi, 3A+ / 3B+ / 4B / 400, works well as a basic desktop computer for me.