g4sra:
> On Monday, November 17th, 2025 at 16:02, Kevin Chadwick via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
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> > As tempting an endeavour as that might be considering Flatpak provides most of
> > any packages it might lack these days. I am surely underestimating the time cost
> > of doing so and so shall not (not to mention unexpected problems like setting up
> > printers and finding dependencies). The great thing about Devuan is the limited
> > fussing.
> Agreed (the limited fussing)
> However...what Debian decide to do next concerns me.
> At some point I will probably have no choice but to jump ship as it were.
> The sooner I do that, the less Debian'ised my systems will be, and the less painful the switch is likely to be.

Debian stopped beeing a "limited fussing" distribution which you safely
could upgrade remotely with the etch realease with added udev.
Everything just stopped working, and it has been downhill since then.
The best time in debian was hamm to sarge.

To be honest, laptops and peoples expectations messes up a lot of
things, so everything isn't debians fault.

Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant,
/Karl Hammar