Devuan GNU+Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Devuan GNU+Linux Average rating 9.0 from 173 review(s) What are your thoughts on Devuan GNU+Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- unstabletesting6.1.05.0.14.0.03.1.02.11.0.0 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 6.1.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-02 Country: Indonesia Votes: 9 recently installed Devuan on my aging Lenovo V310, and the results are impressive. Despite its age, the laptop runs incredibly smooth and feels faster than ever. The system is rock-solid and hasn't encountered a single issue since the installation. If you're looking for a stable, systemd-free distribution that can revitalize older machines, Devuan is easily the best choice. Highly recommended for its reliability and performance. I’ve been testing several distributions on my aging Lenovo V310, and Devuan is the clear winner. I previously tried installing Ubuntu, but the experience was disappointing; the system felt heavy, sluggish, and struggled with basic multitasking. Switching to Devuan changed everything. It is incredibly lightweight and runs flawlessly on this older hardware. The stability is top-notch, and the entire system feels much more responsive without the overhead of systemd. If you have an older laptop that feels 'slow' on mainstream distros, I highly recommend giving Devuan a try. It’s rock-solid, fast, and very reliable. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: unstable Rating: 9 Date: 2026-03-27 Country: New Zealand Votes: 4 What can I say, this is Debian without systemd, so if you like Debian then you'll like Devuan, Devuan gives you the option of sysvinit, openrc, and runit, I briefly tried all three, and I found openrc was the easiest, simple commands to add or remove a service, and without the complexity of systemd units, want to run a command on boot? just put it in rc.local, just like the old days, no writing a systemd service that wants multi-user.target, or graphical.target, or whatever, I chose the net install iso, my wifi card was supported out of the box, I chose the no desktop, minimal install, then once installed I rebooted and installed labwc, and all the other components I required, I switched to the unstable branch and installed the liquorix kernel, now I have an arch like experience, but on debian, and without having to deal with .pacnew files and so on Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 6.1.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-01-03 Votes: 58 Asus B75M-A mobo, Intel 3220 cpu, 1Tb Seagate HDD, Intel integrated graphics, 16Gb memory. Downloaded this latest point release and did a clean install. The install is hands down a lot faster, and smoother, than Debian 13 Trixie proper. I like this new point release, it's quick, clean and has just about as much as I need or want from my OS. I choose to remove any firefox or thunderbird offerings if there are any after installation and go with derivatives Betterbird and Waterfox as I prefer them to the main line based upon. I went with the Xfce desktop and like the graphics. Had a problem with how to pin my Internet offerings onto the panel and a quick question to the wonderful world of the web I was directed to activate a little plug-in to the panel which helped me and to show which program was open when I minimized it from the desktop screen. I like that it's based on Debian for support purposes and don't find this non-systemd offering lacking in anything to me. Desktop is crisp, software is snappy when open and running and I am able to install a couple of odds & ends through CLI, or synaptic that gets me to be where I want to be. I believe Devuan 6.1 to be well supported, alive & very active and am not concerned about if it will be here next year or the next. Very good job indeed to the Devuan team! Thanks! Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 173 reader reviews of Devuan GNU+Linux...