All that this means is that a lot of knowledgeable computer users will either build their own or buy pre used equipment free from this crap, so a Windows machine will be like buying a ChromeOS/Android machine, & therefore just have a smaller market potential - computer manufacturers will see their profits fall exponetially.

I have a stock of useable MBR thin clients, & a few UEFI, that can be used in MBR mode too, so I'll be alright......

Also I am using BSD & Haiku on some of these machines, so even if the Corporates take over Linux, I'll be fine....

You seem to be replacing the content each time you 'cp' to the file 'b'.

In the UK, August is the 'silly season' in the press....I'm guessing it must be February on here!

Now, can we go back to discussing Devuan...thankyou.

I'd be interested in trying an ARM release on my Raspberry Pi 4.

Refractainstaller is just that, it installs the distro, (originally just Refracta), as that was what it was written for - the fact that other distros choose to use it as well is proof that it works for its intended purpose.

It's simple enough, just install to your system partition, & then add your old /home partition to /etc/fstab.

I've always run 'live' & installed from it to disk, & never had any problems.

I've found installing from live distros to be the easiest way to install distros, not just Devuan, to get up & running quickly.

It's been a long time since I've installed from an installation disk!

Edit: The OP's problem may well have been from having his 'home' mounted at the time of installing.

I'm quite impressed with this beta4 release, wifi was one of the things that clinched it for me, to make it worthwhile installing to bare metal - I now have it installed to an old HP G62 laptop as well.

Check F6 in alsamixer, it may be trying to use the wrong output....

Also, if using pulseaudio, again, check that it is using the right output....

(Default output is HDMI if I remember.)

I'd like to see/have a live/installable WM based Devuan - call it Light/Basic/or whatever, just needs a WM, terminal, file browser, web browser to start with, allowing most things to be done that a basic O/S needs - all other software can/could easily be added by the user, as & when needed - with the possibility of persistence, (that would be a big bonus) - but I know we only have a small team who could/can make these things happen, so not expecting it anytime soon......

I think frame buffers allow graphics in the (virtual) terminals, don't they(?).

Lots of older computers available online pre used, that's where I get all of mine these days.

Towers go quite cheaply, as everyone seem to want small quiet computers these days, (me included).

Take a look at the resellers of company pre used computers on Ebay.

Most distros will load necessary drivers when booting up a computer, as long as the needed drivers can be found on the system.

On Devuan, they are kept in the /Firmware directory, & get loaded by the boot process, I think it is the initrd.img that searches for them & actually loads them into kernel space, ready for using.