William Morder wrote:

> From Kubuntu 10.04 onwards, I kept trying to get TDE to work with Kubuntu,
> or with any of the 'buntus. I always ended up with problems that made the
> computer unusable. Then last year my motherboard got fried by a power
> surge, so I determined to start over from scratch, and install some kind
> of GNU/Linux, and settled on Debian as the most stable, with the most
> forks and variants, and largest community.
> 

Usually you do clean minimal install of debian, add the trinity sources to
source.list and install trinity desktop (look at the installation guide)

As of systemd, I followed recommendations given on the debian-user list and
you need only to install sysv-rc sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils AFAIR. Then
automagicall init is used instead of systemd. I used to put
init=/lib/sysvinit/init into /etc/default/grub, but on the last machine
where I did the move, I skipped it and I still get init as process #1. I
have been using this for more than an year now and don't see why one should
go for devuan.

For normal average use root and /opt/trinity are about 10G, so if you give
20G for root partition, should be sufficient.

regards