In case anyone (with a healthy dislike for things like systemd) is wondering: it seems it is possible (and pretty easy) to switch from Debian to Devuan as documented here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talk.devuan.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;migrating-from-debian-to-a-minimalist-devuan&#x2F;181" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talk.devuan.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;migrating-from-debian-to-a-minimal...</a>