Thanks for the hard work. There are a few impatients around, so glad you've made a ISO for the next.

I do not deny it Indeed it is great a desktop. Latest version 41+ version is a lot stable even more lighter than the previous one. I like it so much aswell.

Anyone may call me a fanboy, i always used GTK on my Linux journey as my past scrots tells. First time on GNOME shell field anyway. I thought i would stay a little while on fedora, but i would keep it stable for my daily tasks and test other distro in her boxes. I just did recently an big upgrade from 34 to 35 on fedora, in general it went well as a beginner for me there.

I remember Fedora 17 around 2012 from a friend of mine who was/still is a regular user, how much have been changed since then and how stable it is today. At that time we've been on #!, My friend was watching my crunchbang openbox stable, and i was seeing his gnome frequent crashes and we made comparisons often together at work

Now i'm using it myself GNOME Shell. It is different with Wayland, well matured, stable and usable.

I think typical Devuan user do it itself, as i explained above. Devuan devs produce Debian without systemd just that.

There are already minimalistic derivatives from community users, maybe take a look within the thread, perhaps you'll find one that fits your shoes.

Devuan NETINST ISO > Expert Install > None Tasksel Selected > Minimal Xorg installation aka "xserver-xorg-core", > startx autoload from .xinitrc file > minimalistic Window Manager=CWM > feh to load background images.

Every new version that comes from the kernel comes a bit bloat due to new features.

OS Kernel copy on my system used/uses memory over the years:
Kernel 2 series 15MB MEM
Kernel 3 series 25MB MEM
Kernel 4 series 35MB MEM
Kernel 5 series >5.10 50MB MEM
Kernel 5 series >5.14 70MB MEM
Latest from testing/daedalus "devuan 5.14.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.14.9-2 (2021-10-03)" boots from 50 to 70MB memory.

A bit of optimizing after OS installation, tweaking, removing unwanted stuff by using guide https://wiki.debian.org/ReduceDebian - Well, i don't need to use always reducedebian after i used once. But, heleped me on first install copy years ago.

Patience, many free time to waste, a PC/Virtual Machine to learn or a bit of experience in the end for newbies. I learned a few things by breaking many times my system or customs. I never used a virtual machine for tests, i learn by break my real shits and it was scary on my early linux startup.

So, with NETINST ISO you builds your system according to your preference like Arch Linux. Therefore you have inside only what you want, accurate, light weight. More or less so i can explain it briefly, if the question is addressed to me.

Shoot me whatever you want because of SystemD Yesterday upgraded from Fedora 34 to 35.

Today package "base-files" fixed version wrong number for testing.

It used to show on my workstation:

Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (daedalus/ceres) x86_64
Instead of
Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/ceres) x86_64

After the last change it appears properly version 5 for testing.
I had made changes myself aswell early, but i am happy that it took official form properly.

Thank you!

If i had started Linux early before 2010, I'm sure compiz would have stick on me.

Thanks for sharing the above xmonad config Ogis1975.

Xmonad, by most of WM i know, this one and a few others have ran away without even trying it seriously.

I used default config for sure, i tried once editing config, made a big mess and didn't know what to do more so, i give up easly. Your scrot reminds me of when i was dealing with spectrwm or hlwm.
I was a beginner on tiling configs, I had extraordinary time by simply editing their "----rc" especially when it is was raining outside.

Not everyone is in a hurry, everyone according to the needs, sometimes rushing brings consequences and boredom. Who care if it's new if you are satisfied what's consist and have done yourself? Never rush for the sake of others or trends.

Very good optimization Ogis1975, minimalistic as ****.

The unicode bars colors @PS1, reminds me mIRC scripting days.
I used to generate many of those blocks colors back in the Windows IRC days

I personally used Chimaera-testing for a whole year 2020-2021. Therefore, i have been with chimaera a bit early, for a year i tested it and enjoyed what it served. Having a very minimal system with less packages and apps, I find it very easy to navigate test after testing.

So far, my copy Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/sid) seems to start well.

Very nice QNX-alike theme durham, I used FluxBox for about a year haven't seen before this stylish.

Perhaps i haven't looked over BlackBox to find it, or it is a new one?

I like very much!

Two different beasts.

DELL Tower Optiplex 330 (2007)
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DELL Tower Optiplex 5080 (2020)
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Fonts used Cascadia Code
Desktop Background Nordic Wallpapers

I'm not a Nordic style fan, but a few backgrounds are very nice to have. Not mine, credit all to the authors.