Like the majority of users of Devuan, at first, when Debian was forked
and Devuan established, it was considered by the rest as a joke that
cannot be taken seriously. The argument was Debian was too big a
distribution to fork and systemd was 'the way to go'. Determination
and perseverance have proven, even a 'bad taste joke', can be taken
seriously.

I have been running Devuan since August of two years ago, and I do not
regret it. Being forced to do Linux the way seen from above, would
have definitely killed my motivation to use a different OS completely.
Devuan is giving me freedom; Devuan is not only about init freedom,
but much much more. Devuan is about placing users' freedom at the
heart of software design. Devuan is not about advertising a product
that users must accept. If it were for that, its creation would have
been useless.

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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
If you cannot make abstructions about details you do not understand
the concepts underlying them.