But it's on an ISO image. I'd have to edit the ISO. Kinda extreme for a small glitch. Though I found a fix with the sh invocation, someone else had another idea. Edit fstab and replace the 'auto' attribute on the cdrom mount with 'exec' and then it should run. Apparently this is the mistake that Devuan makes compared to CentOS. Using 'auto' on the cdrom mount.

/dev/sr0        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,exec     0       0

After literally removing the virtual drive and re-adding it, the machine still won't run the additions CD. I get a popup that says "Error autorunning software" and "cannot find the autorun program"...

This is the exact same CD that just ran in the CentOS VM.

Manually running it as root doesn't work:
/media/cdrom/auotrun.sh returns "permission denied"

As nicely as the games run most of the time, they do have problems. At least in the current install I am using. Using a different distro, MX Linux, and on a different system, I find that these problems don't seem to occur (yet). Maybe it was a mistake to use the install method recommended on the Lutris website? They give directions to import an Open SUSE repository even though there is a Lutris package in the Debian/Devuan repositories. I'll be making a new build to test the native Lutris package soon.

Yes, I have used Youtube-dl. That works with Youtube, but not with real stick-up-the-*** DRM fanatics like Spotify. The only way I have found to get a podcast from Spotify is to play it in a browser on a different site that has setup embedding, and use the 'analog hole' to get the audio. (And I really do mean the only way. They are so paranoid that I cannot sign up for a legit account with Firefox. Can't figure out why, either.)

ETA: I downloaded the latest Audacity AppImage from the github page and that still has the problem. This is probably a bug in a supporting libraries for the audio system, not the program itself.

It is not practical to remove pulseaudio. They have it tied into everything. I got suggestions to completely remove the XFCE desktop from the dependency manager.

Again, this would not be a problem in itself, if I could get the system to do some very simple things that Windows does by default. Either Devuan needs to clean up its sound systems, or Linux sound in general is really badly broken.

According to the tutorials, the Jack system will simply recognize any audio program you start if you have started it first. It doesn't. So this is also useless.

Yet in Windows all I have to do is start the browser and go to the page with the security-obfuscated stream I want to capture, load Audacity and tell it to capture local sound, then start the stream. The browser runs the javascript juggler that pulls in each fragment of the stream and plays it, everything gets captured by Audacity and can then be saved as .wav or .mp3 or whatever I want.  It takes a little fiddling with Audacity settings, but it's not difficult. In Linux it isn't even possible. It looks like I'll have to keep Wind'ohs around just for audio capture.

It's not that I "want" to use pulse audio, but the installer gave it to me by default. I'm not sure how much trouble it would be to completely remove it and then figure out how to make things work with ALSA. What is this 'Jack' util? Something specifically intended to make media connections?

According to a post I found on one message board there is a package called "alsa-plugins' that would create a device to let Audacity find the pulse audio server. But I can't find such a package in the Beowulf repositories.

Yeah, those scripts look quite a bit like a re-write of fancontrol. Right now I'm still learning many things and the BIOS controls are sufficient to keep it from melting down. Once I've settled some other questions, I'll definitely be trying those scripts out.

The default controls, I presume embedded in the video BIOS, don't work very well. The card regularly goes over 60 C and that's too high in my opinion. It is possible to enable manual control, but that's very crude. You have to set it to a very high level that will be needed when you are at maximum load (in heavy combat, basically) and let it whir along at that speed all the time you are playing the game. Rotating through open windows to check your video card temp is a bit too much extra multitasking while gaming.

Hopefully there is an Afterburner equivalent from a reliable source out there somewhere. It's odd that there is so much variability in the detection of video card temperature and fan sensors. I've had the same cards on different machines and sometimes the sensors can be found and sometimes not. But the info must be available, because the Noveau drivers can usually find the temp sensor.

Success! I found discussions on other boards about all the copious dependencies of the Vulkan libraries and got a list of things to install:

libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 
mesa-vulkan-drivers 
mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386 
gstreamer1.0-gtk3:i386 
libgtk-3-bin:i386 
librsvg2-common:i386
libasound2-plugins:i386 
libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 
libdbus-1-3:i386 
libsqlite3-0:i386

Yes, I already had the Vulkan-drivers packages installed. I just cut & paste the whole list and that worked. Obviously, it just skipped what I already had installed.

After this, the Star Trek Online installer did not barf and exit. It downloaded the launcher. I was then able to copy the game files I already had from the Windows install and after fiddling with some config settings to get the launcher to understand where the game files were, it was able to start and run the game. It plays fine so far, though I haven't gone into any large battles yet.

Next up: Lord of the Rings Online! The obstacle right now is installing fonts that Lutris thinks it needs. But if I can get that one to work, I think I can abandon Wind'ohs completely...