Rather than we continue going back and forth over the proposed naming, why not go with a generic one for now as a placeholder? That's the least of our worries. Having a centralized section for that use case is definitely a necessity.

I think the Devuan staff know what's best, and a huge plus is listening to the community. Let's lead by example with this new section.

I vote in favor. That's the whole point of Devuan, and then some.

The point of deleting accounts is to get rid of spam. Even if someone was going around making rude posts, we'd know it's an actual person, so the posts could stay (depending on their usefulness and keeping the forum's rules in mind).

Most of the time, people wanting their accounts deleted are troublemakers trying to cover up their tracks, since they know they aren't welcomed in the community any longer. No one honestly cares about silly Internet fights, and those who do eventually forget about it.

This isn't Facebook or any other dumb social media platform, where you just post pictures and vague poems in order to be validated by popular folks. Forums are meant for discussions and sharing important information, hence more focus on tight-knit communities.

I was just told by one of the developers via IRC that I only need the first line for Chimaera, as the rest are pretty much empty at the moment.

This is something I'm still experiencing. I tried all of the listed solutions, but APT keeps complaining about Wine32:i386 missing dependencies. My first choice was getting it from WineHQ directly, however.

Sources:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main contrib non-free
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ buster main
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/Debian_10 ./

Through Refracta, this is the Devuan that I was looking for. I can leave my previous daily distro behind and not feel bad at all about hating on Poetteringware now.

Many thanks to all the great developers, testers, and support community for getting us this far.

For starters, please post details of your system setup via Pastebin or similar. We can take a further look into your system issues and point to the correct packages and drivers needed to solve your problems.

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I first got into Devuan two years ago when there was talk of non-Systemd distros in the market. Having used GNU/Linux Mint 18.3 (the last one to allow "some" sort of init choice), I kept waiting for the right moment to jump right in. I tried Devuan when ASCII was out, but I had problems with metapackages (i.e. removing SLiM affects essential system functions, such as UDisks), so I left it alone and went back to my daily driver. Come Beowulf, it FINALLY showed promise, but I still didn't quite feel right with it.

That's when I'd heard that a Devuan spin by the name of Refracta existed, so I honestly gave it a go. I was surprised how lightweight it was, and the necessary drivers were provided to me in the form of binaries (I definitely needed those for my AMD GPU). On top of that, its default sound drivers shipped with ALSA (instead of PulseAudio, which I can't quite wrap my head around for such a non-Systemd distro to use as default). Even better is that you get to create your own live installer with ease.

After spending all of yesterday tweaking my Refracta system to how I see fit, I can safely say that this will tide me by for a really long time. Surprised how stable it is, and it's superior to other non-Systemd champions Artix GNU/Linux, MX GNU/Linux,  and Void GNU/Linux.

So, to sum it up, the "point" of using Devuan is to get away from Red Hat and Poettering bollocks by ways of Systemd, PulseAudio, and other such rubbish. Canonical putting the final nail in the coffin was when they announced Snap. Well, at least GNU/Linux Mint's developers had enough common sense to reject that, but it looks like they will continue to use Systemd, even on GNU/Linux Mint Debian Edition (here's their perfect chance to join forces with Devuan and usher in the best of both worlds).