For those who insist on multi-booting with Windows, consider the grub2win project at SourceForge.
Saves on stress and hassle when a Microsoft update affects the MBR. Perhaps it should be S.O.P.?

For keeping up with rapidly-changing apps, would (something like) a "fire-jail-ed" "appimage" make more sense?
Expecting speedy service on oldstable seems ludicrous.

Welcome to the neighborhood, kedaha.  May your perspective enrich the community.

Login screen says Debian 8; I saw no shutdown/restart/suspend/etc options on it
Installer insists on adding bootloader (but respects redirection to partition), starts copying files without warning O_o
Good: Lxde, Customize Look & Feel; light & dark themes respected by Synaptic
I'm not familiar with simpleNetAid; only-connection "ens35" failed to (find device,) connect
¿Does this assume an internet connection will be present and active on boot?

In my experience, Microsoft did on occasion drag their feet, but never flat-out refused to fix a bug in public view.
Over time, their larger-$ customers (and later some persistent white-hat hackers) forced many clean-ups.

We should also acknowledge that several other distribitions (and several non-Linux operating systems) have avoided such code.
We are not alone.

Of course there is! But it doesn't work. Several presented controls seem to be ignored*.
(Same on several DebIan and DebIan-based ISOs I've tried.)
And once in a while, after an unpredictable usually-long time, wicd will actually re-connect.
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*Given that, my first guess would be that something buggered authorization. I Am Not An Expert.

These are nice!  Full/max versions resemble my usual first test choices.
I recommend some sort of "dark" theme; Adwaita-Dark (for one) makes synaptic tolerable during dark-shift.
Not sure how to do that in OpenBox; I think synaptic takes gtk3.
Nice to see yad too - which repository is it in now?
Haven't tried PaleMoon on Linux for a while; nice to see it pick up (most) favorite add-ons, and OS theme.
(I have to add pavucontrol to get my speakers working right; maté's "sound" seems too dumb-down for me - minor.)
I see xfce-power-manager, is it better than the maté version?
Again, nice ISOs. Thanks!
:::
(No internet at your cabin?  What do you do, sneaker-net from a library/café?)

Perhaps your criteria need adjustment?  Some websites just aren't worthy of traffic.  Your requirements and priorities may not match everyone else's.  Be calm, and observe.

Since Devuan intends to support more process-management systems than just sysV, that's too narrow. "Init Freedom" means more than just one (sysV).

My experience with it gave me hope; it seemed favorable. I don't know enough to evaluate its perfection.
If you've found some potential for improvement, please elaborate!
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Meanwhile, (from another thread about a menu entry):

I suspect some of my frustrations came from updates - not just to synaptic or apt, but to sudo and gksu.  At any rate, my first attempts produced custom ISOs, but several features were buggered (like auto-mounted drives, and access thereto).

About minor problem,
my first guess (I am not an expert):
inspect /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
look for line with "devuan-ascii.lists", and (if found)
either
remove line
or
(if comment) change format so apt doesn't confuse it with a repository line (I am not an expert) maybe start with ## (double #)
or
(if repository line) correct spelling or format
.
(Am I close?)

I appreciate the darker styles - shades of grey with bold text colored - mercury (amber), radium(emerald), cobalt(blue).
In my case, the emerald green is initially most pleasant, but for long dark-shift use amber is gentlest.
It's not easy to find a theme or style that uses only amber, orange and red hues for text and darker shades (grey, brown, etc) backgrounds.