On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:45:05 +1000, Erik wrote in message
<20170815064505.GA3443@ratatosk>:

> Finding Devuan, and subscribing last night, I'm keen to replace my
> Debian 9.0 "Systemdix"¹, even at the cost of reverting to older
> packages. But I don't much like Gnome either, and have become quite
> used to LXDE - especially the boot speed of the leaner environment.

..ok, chances are you'll like LXQt. ;o)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXQt

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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best case, worst case, and just in case.