It's OK....I've been practicing with the BSDs for this very scenario......

If 'Linux' does disappear down this route, at least I'm ready....

Welcome aboard.......Devuan is Debian without systemd.

I could never get on with Chrome/Chromium, so have always used Firefox, occasionally Dillo, & have tried to use text browsers too, the internet has become an advertising space for corporations, far removed from its original purpose...

I stopped using Youtube when forced to watch adverts, & only returned to it when we could block them - so if everyone did so, they'd soon lose all their revenues..

I just wish someone/distros would revive TinyX.......

Welcome aboard.

If you want it to look like Mint, just use Mint.....

Devuan has its own look & feel....

But, you can modify it if you want, that's what Linux is all about.

I have to click a button to get mine working/switched on.

Yes, I am.

If 'startx' doesn't work, you need to install xorg & a WM/DE.

(It's been a while since I last installed it to a RPi....)

They tried that before, & lost a lot of their programmers, & users, & created a lot of bad blood!

Haven't they learned their lesson yet! - Linux is about freedom of choice!

Thankfully, it caused Devuan to be born in the first instance, if they do it again, many users will (possibly) ditch Devuan as well, if it isn't an easy job to continue using Debian as a base!

Ventoy will start up in either MBR or UEFI, depending on your computer, & it starts the distro as it would start if it was the only one on a pendrive, all boot options of the distro remain available.

I regularly ran Devuan/XFCE on a 2GB ram / 1.2GHz dual core thin client, I even ran it with just 1GB ram as an experiment on a single core thin client, it was a little slow, but even the internet was usable.

It's lightning fast on my 2GB ram converted Chromebook.