to install debian on my macmini 2006 i  used "refit" tool first, and then after installation of the linux distro via cd used the included partition tool to update the partition table.
afterwards some linux distro would sometimes not boot with refit, so i installed refind over it (and choosing no to remove refit partition tool ) and then upon reboot would boot linux grub from within refind.

debian SQUEEZE not STRETCH was the best option at that time, alongside with debian wheezy and lubuntu.
ubuntu cd for some strange reason very often didn't get picked up by the apple machine for some reason or did not allow to boot.

tried today the Ascii with KDE, and on top of it i did install TDE 14 (never tried Trinity Desktop before) and i was very pleasantly surprised.
Some things did not function though (printing for example) so i went back to Ascii XFCE, which has been most stable and rapid.

Well, not so much, but for some reason i was not able to switch from LXDE to KDE as Login Manager (with KWin); effectively,
the StartLogin, the Menu was managed by LXQT and the Windows-Display-Manager and FileManager was with KDE (which i very much like, especially the older more responive kde4) -

- so i try to change to KDE altogether, and in the process i ended up performing a new install with Devuan Ascii XFCE.

I really like the responsiveness of XFCE, but for the rest i prefer KDE.

still not sure how to go on with the Desktop Environment; it would be nice to able to switch easier "on the fly" , but this time i was just not persevering enough.
KDE + LXQT is certainly a interesting match (actually i thought that i get a full KDE and a full LXQT, but somehow it got mingled together).

thanks, this helped me too, on XFCE4. just upgraded from ascii to beowulf. nice!

for netflix it seems only google chrome is working atm on linux devuan ascii ... streaming right now thru it. chromium and firefox don't seem to function; pipelight is no more, that used to function for firefox.

Thank you very much, that was really helpful.

Downloaded the libpng12 here
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/amd6 … 0/download

and now lsb package installs, problem solved.

I am running Devuan Ascii (just installed some day ago) and i noticed this error before

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
lsb-desktop : Depends: libpng12-0 but it is not installable
               Recommends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.6) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Until this is not solved, there seems no way to install the epson-driver package from the homepage.

i would either need this package to install driver

epson-inkjet-printer-escpr
(installabe on debian)

or (lsb) > preferable > but it is not installable on devuan ascii, as it seems to conflict with (lsb-desktop)
and then i could install the proper printer driver from epson

/etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
/dev/mapper/rich--PC--vg-root /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot was on /dev/sdc2 during installation
UUID=07d2061b-61ee-4196-8ed6-3ec4d40ff2c7 /boot           ext2    defaults        0       2
# /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
UUID=0E51-C604  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
/dev/mapper/rich--PC--vg-swap_1 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/sr0        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0

the installed firefox is from the repo Mozilla Firefox 60.7.2