On Dec 09, 2024, nick@??? wrote:
> Hi crew,
>
>
> So now I'm using devuan as my daily driver and I must say I am having some
> difficult problems. Firstly, I like the Cinnamon desktop environment
> which I am used to as a former Mint user. But the devuan Cinnamon
> version is either old, buggy, or not tuned. It's definitely not the
> same experience as running a proper Mint install. Issues that I
> encountered so far:

Cinnamon 5.6 -- roughly LM21 or so. Definitely won't have the same
"customizations" on Debian/Devuan that the Mint team will put on their
release. Also there may simply be differences between Mint's Ubuntu
base and Debian/Devuan in general in terms of what is available (check a
LMDE6 live-session, see if it behaves more closely to what you're
familiar with in LMxx -- if so, then export the config(s) ).


>
> - Cannot set the system date through the GUI. Options to set the date seem
> to be missing in the date dialog, not sure why, I will have to do a
> comparison with a functioning Mint machine to learn more. As a
> workaround I temporarily set the date from the command-line using:
> sudo date --set="something" ... but the setting does not persist
> beyond the next boot.

Why not set the BIOS/UEFI clock properly then, so that you don't have to
muck around with it on reboots?

> So today I started to do some work with the system and the first thing I
> needed to do was install KiCAD. I need at least version 8.0 to continue

According to the project installation instructions, kicad-8 is available
in Daedalus (or well Bookworm) Backports (per packages.debian.org, it's
8.0.6+dfsg-1~bpo12+1), alternatively seems there's also a flatpak option
hovering at 8.0.7.

I'd imagine the backports option to work relatively well -- I'm on the
default 6.x.y version from the main daedalus repo; but now that there's
something in backports ... hmmm


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