Sorry i dont have much experience with that sort of thing, if it doesn't have an audio jack its just not worth it. I dont like the current trend of audio tech leading into usb connection, the quality imo is just not there.

thierrybo, I use alsamixer in xterm and it has the ability to change sound cards on the fly, atleast i think that is what below commands do as i dont have another sound device i could check it on. I know its not gui but its just as good.

xterm -e alsamixer

then press F6 to select sound card

Are you using wicd though OP? You dont mention what your using or methods for wifi connection.

Power management is multi layered so maybe break down your system specs, what are you using for power management etc.

There is probably a config file somewhere you need to edit.

^ Same, did a short positive message.

I see, as a base set of directories they seem ok to me, although i do find myself adding in build/ tmp/ bin/ among a few others. Doesn't take much to manually add them in either so good point.

I got this latest release installed today, working great on a bare metal install, really snappy desktop. One minor gripe though is i cant seem to get xdg-user-dirs-update to work, it should populate $HOME but does nothing? Is there an extra step needed for refracta?

Congrats, i will give it a test drive tonight.

Regarding usb sticks, ive  noticed the dwindling of 8GB stick as well. All my local tech store had left was one brand. It was cheap, only $4 for a usb 2.0 with backwards compatibility to usb3.0 but i miss the old days of 1 and 2gb usb sticks, i think i even had a 512mb at one stage.

Testing repos are really only for testing purposes mirix, i think it sort of belies the ethos of debian/devuan if a bunch of distros popped up saying they are based on testing. There are unstable distros in debian which happen to be quite stable for the most part like siduction to name one, but they have a dedicated team looking after that distro with there own mirrors. Im not sure if devuan has unstable distros out there, i dont know. Mirrors are another problem, testing mirrors i think are only like one or two base mirrors? correct me if im wrong devuan devs etc?

If you want the full Devuan experience with xfce4 then choose devuan desktop only, i have found that if you choose devuan desktop along with any others will give you a very complete desktop environment also.

I just love some of the excuses for systemd behavior in some of those slashdot comments, like .
Its a part of a process copied by another process but we dont know how the actual process works until said process is shared with other processes and copied and sym linked to a set of new usr processes we really should not daemonise. Oh shit, that really caused the memory leak we were after umm no sorry thats bad code sorry.....

Jump, Bounce, Up Down....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz1ca1-_-MY

Those should be fixed quickly even if no exploits yet for those CVE's.

"Dont Make A FrankenDebian"

Should be front and center of both Debian and Devuan websites, a good percentage of issues like this are always popping up at forums and elsewhere regularly. There is a wiki  https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian but how would a new or uninformed user know where to find that info before he/she break it?

Or maybe "Debian is not Ubuntu or Mint or MX Linux" ........