Maybe, but I don't think so. I've never seen any error messages when running rsnapshot. I don't run it using cron, I use a script that I wrote so, unless I am mistaken, I believe that I would have seen any error messages if there had been any.

You did give me an idea, though. I am going to create a test file and then delete it after a week or two. That should allow me to determine whether rsnapshot is working correctly.

If it turns out that you absolutely must use NTFS, then I recommend using a Liquorix kernel. According to my research, ntfs-3g is enabled in Liquorix kernels.

See: https://liquorix.net/

Use GParted and format the drive as exFAT. Before doing this, make sure that exfatprogs is installed.

I've known for several years now that some of the web browsers packaged for Debian Stable are not kept up to date, and are therefore not safe to use. Firefox ESR and (to a lesser extent) Chromium are the only two that I know are definitely kept up to date.

I would install Falkon on Devuan using Flatpak. You can see here that there's a package for it on Flathub:

https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.falkon

Another possible way to install Falkon is via the Nix package manager. I'm sure that there are other ways to install an up-to-date Falkon on Devuan, but those two are the ones I would focus on.

As I pointed out in the past, the problem is with Ventoy and not Devuan. Ventoy uses a "hacky" method to perform its "magic", and the result of this is a solution that is not very robust.

Here's what the developer of the Limine bootloader had to say about Ventoy:

“Limine is not Ventoy, nor does it try to be. I am not a fan of Ventoy as I think it is a terrible hack (because it needs to support each and every single OS (Linux, FreeBSD...) individually. For example, it needs to load its own kernel modules for various OSes in order to add "virtual drives" since ISO files aren't really made to show up to the OS kernel as separate drives).”

Source:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. … 699#p88699

I think it's worth considering. At the very least, you could install Alpine in a VM in order to become more familiar with it. That's what I'm planning to do. Even if I don't use it as my main OS, I may still use it for some other purpose.

There's a similar program that has been around for years. It's called wajig.

For more information, see:

https://wiki.debian.org/Wajig

Wajig: Linux System Management

I have never used virt-manager. I tried using about a year ago, but quickly became annoyed with it and gave up. Since it is unnecessary and I can use QEMU without it, that is my current preference. I only mention that because some people seem to think that using virt-manager is a requirement.

Did you try connman, like I suggested here?:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=48061#p48061

If not, now would be a good time to do so.

@Ron,

Do you happen to have an eero router? Those things are notorious for this. In my experience, on Windows 10 the problem is very bad. I'll click on the Connect button, and it will connect after a considerable delay. But then, very often, it will disconnect immediately or within a minute or so. The problem is bad enough that when I run Windows Update I plug an Ethernet cable into the laptop and don't even bother with Wi-Fi. So far, on Devuan the problem has been nonexistent for me; however, I don't use Devuan with Wi-Fi very often, so the problem may still be there but with much less severity compared to Windows.

I don't agree with you. It's very clear from this person's writings that he is very knowledgeable about matters of computer security.

You misrepresent what this person wrote. He never claims that Windows is more secure than GNU/Linux. What he does is provide numerous examples showing that other operating systems, including Windows, are making progress addressing different security issues, while Linux is basically standing still. And when he talks about Linux, it appears to me that he is really only talking about kernel development.

I sometimes use Windows 10 because some useful software runs only on Windows (and sometimes MacOS as well). Because it's a proprietary OS, I don't really trust it -- I believe that the likelihood of built-in backdoors is high. As such, it only gets access to the internet when it's absolutely necessary. However, in its defence, Windows 10 has built-in security features (most disabled by default) that allow me to lock it down so tightly that any unknown program that gets onto the system will be blocked and will not run. I wish that I could do the same on GNU/Linux, but so far I have not found any simple, easy way to replicate that behavior on Linux.

Getting back to Linux, one of Madaiden's recommendations is to use Alpine Linux. That seems like very good advice to me. Alpine Linux has no systemd, uses musl instead of libc, and all userland binaries are compiled as Position Independent Executables (PIE) with stack smashing protection. Unfortunately, it does not appear to be a good choices for novices.