On Tuesday 29 September 2020 21:26:27 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2020-09-28 16:09:16 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
Since this conversation appears to have gone off the rails already -- at least three or four "leaps" in thought beyond the original question and header -- I am starting a new thread.
Please feel free to cut out the excess verbiage.
For the present, I must try to limit myself to keeping things that will actually fit inside my living space; otherwise, there will be nowhere for me to rest my head at night.
Bill
If I could figure out how to get VirtualBox working in OpenSuSE I'd use that to run other OS images, but so far my inability to install some of its components has me stymied.
Leslie
Yes, I would also consider running some kind of virtual machine inside my Devuan system, so that I could test some other distros now and then (just to keep my hand in, to know what's out there), but at the moment I have a lot of other more pressing concerns, and besides, I like my Devuan system.
As somebody else wrote already (please pardon my faulty memory here!), Debian/Devuan has a rather steep learning, especially for one such as myself who isn't suited to technical work by either temperament or job requirements; but once we learn how to get it to behave as we want, we have freedom.
Nik makes BSD sound interesting, and I would like to explore Slackware some more, and there are others, as well; but at the moment I don't need to change horses, and there is no hurry.
Bill