That's not how backports should be used.  If you upgrade everything in backports it could fubar your system.  Only use backports for specific packages that are needed.  For example, if you get a new video card and need newer firmware.

If you want the very newest run ceres (unstable) but be prepared for breakages.

We've been headed there for a very long time.  It started in 2014 with the GR vote on init diversity that inspired the creation of Devuan.  This excellent post-mortem by dasein analyzes all the gory details.  A must read if you want to understand how we have gotten to where we are:

Combatting revisionist history

This is news?

Thanks for alerting us to this.  We're working on it . . .

I'm not seeing it.  # signifies root in a terminal.  He just used the symbol instead of the words.

@dice . . . the surveillance state has been here for centuries in different forms.  It is well explained by Eben Moglen at re:publica 2012 in Berlin.  Almost 10 years later, the hole has gotten even deeper.

"Freedom" is not external.  It is internal. We all have the freedom to choose actions that are driven by selfish motivations or hatred or deluded fantasies or to choose actions that are motivated by generosity or compassion or the reality that no one is doing anything to us.  In the end, we are doing it to ourselves with every action either verbal, physical or mental.  This requires clear attention and accepting responsibility for the consequences.  IOW, license is not freedom.  It is indulgence and bondage to behaviors that in the end cause grief to oneself and others.

Welcome to the forum!  FYI . . . next time try Torvalds . . .  Murdoch shouldn't have worked.

All empires decay into excess and decadence then are replaced by something "new" which eventually ends  in a similar way.  Why?  Because humans are deeply flawed and do not learn from experience or history.  They just react and make up stories to justify those actions thinking that they are actually important in the grand scheme of things.

I have a custom action to launch Thunar as root in a Beowulf VB pkexec thunar %F.  Same can be done to open a specific file with a text editor.  Pluma FTW!  And in the panel I use synaptic-pkexec.  Might not work in ceres though . . .

Disclaimer . . . I have mostly used that instance of beowulf to theme for chimaera so not given it hard daily use.

Or better yet, just don't use "appimage" at all.  I suspect that there aren't many devuan users who would touch it.

Isn't lockin the whole point of GNOME/systemd?  I could see that coming 6 years ago and abandoned ship . . .