On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:53:36 -0700
capercally.bleery670@??? wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 11:53:32AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > capercally.bleery670@??? said on Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:13:29 -0700
> >
> > >https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/15336.html
> > >
> > >--
> > >Ian
>
> > Oh, I get it. Ian is a troll. He comes onto a mailing list whose
> > core purpose is a sans-systemd fork of Debian to say that this
> > sans-systemd fork is unnecessary and we can all return to the Debian
> > fold.
>
> I'm not *that* Ian, if that is what you meant.
>
> I use Devuan when I can, which is mostly on server-like systems where
> I don't need any of the "modern" GUI stuff. But some things just
> cannot be done without the "modern" GUI (unfortunately), and there I
> need just *one* such GUI across all the systems or I'll go crazy.
> Which implies (also unfortunately) that GUI has to be Gnome [1], and
> Devuan doesn't (or didn't until lately) provide a working Gnome
> option.
>

Hi,

what was not working? A standard debian gnome install can be migrated
to devuan with minimal changes and the main features (desktop, network)
work with the exception of gdm3 which is a little problematic and could be
substituted by slim or lightdm. For inspiration you can take a look here:

https://git.devuan.org/farmatito/migration

Ciao,
Tito