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Hello cynicfm!

I really agree with your general attitude; I don't think I understood all of your text, but, being frustrated myself I can easily relate to (which is what my interpreted  views are of) you're opinion(s).

Having been using SuSE/OpenSuSE for 10 years+++, I was quite astonished when I became aware of what was going on with the 'systemd' agenda of the distro.

All the same, happy coding!!

Cheers,
Olav

Hello xbcb0.

Recent upgrade from Jessie to Ascii:
I have an old 550TI NVIDIA device on my work desktop; after I installed the proprietary driver, all was fine X-vise; the Nouveau driver, by the way, was initially freezing sessions very frequently previously to which.

Cheers,
Olav

I'm sorry, slightly tired now; my reply actually presupposes you are wired now, are you?
Otherwise you will not be able to connect to those repos available online.

I remember having this DVD issue myself, and if I remember correctly I just typed in 'cdrom' in the Synaptic dialogue box when it asked for a cdrom with the software.

Hello.

Just a suggestion, but what I would do is to download the full DVD image, copy it to the USB (bootable), boot from the stick and follow the graphical install procedure; the DVD image has a more comprehensive set of packages than the desktop live image so might help to solve the WIFI issue; and in any case, you could install Devuan first and then proceed to solve the NIC next; also, in my experience, using a physical connection during install time/OS set-up is usually a trouble-free path to take, so you might consider that too if the option is available.

I didn't quite understand what you explained you already tried though, so I might have missed something.

Good luck!

Olav

I'm not the slightest fond of google; but wanting a browser which integrates well with my KDE4 desktops, and as FF has become increasingly unusable both in this regard (loosing the ability to store passwords in KWallet) and speed-wise, I decided to have a trial of both Pale Moon and Chromium on two different computers; I have to say, though, that Chromium has proved to be a very decent choice, I had much more issues with Pale Moon.
I would appreciate some feedback regarding privacy concerns though; but if Chromium really let you potentially stay incognito, I would absolutely recommend it.

Cheers,
Olav