Hi! I am considering to switch this main laptop from Debian Sid to Devuan Ceres for quire some time already. Right now I noticed I have another laptop where I can test this move first. On the second laptop, my jukebox for Hi-Fi equipment, issues are not as critical as on this one. I think I may test migrating there and see what happens. I may delay switching over the main laptop, a ThinkPad T520, to Devuan Ceres till Winter holidays or even later.
So or so I am really keen to hear about how Plasma works on Ceres. What are your experiences? I expect hardware to work just the same regarding drivers, but I compile my own kernels on this main laptop anyway. How about integration of Plasma with other stuff? - NetworkManager: On Debian it depends on libsystemd, but on Devuan Ascii is does not. So does it work fine on Devuan without libsystemd? - What about Pulseaudio? On Devuan Ascii it depends on libsystemd. (Please no discussions on pro and contra Pulseaudio. I am aware of the arguments and I disliked Pulseaudio for a long time. Meanwhile it works just fine for me, while I still hope for something better to come along, maybe Pipewire, if it can run without Systemd stuff) If Pulseaudio does not work, what do you use for sound, pure ALSA, Jack? Do all your apps work with it? Firefox with ALSA has been an issue I think. - How about plugable devices like USB sticks? Are they automatically detected in Plasma and ready to mount by click? Any other experiences about what does work and what does not work? Not everything has to work perfectly, but the desktop has to work good enough to get actual work done without too much interference and also be able to hear sound with all applications, including even a game with uses OpenAL. Also the production laptop works in many different network environments and has to basically work with ethernet, with authenticated ethernet (using WPA Supplicant), in different WLANs and occasionally also on mobile broadband provided by phone connected with USB (but can also open WLAN access point in case USB modem thing would not work). It is unusual that I use Debian Sid on a production laptop, but I feel comfortable with it, as it generally works and most issues are usually quite temporary or can be worked around easy enough. How are your experiences on Devuan Ceres? I bet it has similar stability and similar temporary breakages as Debian Sid? (I kindly ask you to keep any ranting out of this. I navigate both Debian and Devuan communities and have friends with both. If that makes me an enemy for you, then please just ignore my mail and be done with it.) Thank you, -- Martin _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
