[NTLUG:Discuss] Devuan and Win11

[Leroy Tennison]

Weird combination - I know.
First, I have finally gotten Devuan installed - here's what I encountered/learned, hopefully it helps someone else.   
   - It works well except for OpenOffice which gets strange file-related error messages but otherwise works fine.  It's something with Devuan because the source media is the same with both Devuan and Ubuntu but OpenOffice works fine on Ubuntu.
   - I've installed all the other software I use (and some of it is rather unusual) without finding a single item I couldn't get.
   - I couldn't get a DDed iso image to boot on my system but that may be some hardware issue.  Creating a DVD worked fine.
   - Make sure to allow alternate repositories during the install because you'll need to comment out the cdrom entry in sources.list to get around complaints about it's not having the correct authentication otherwise.
I've gotten Win11 installed as a Virtual Machine on hardware that doesn't have TPM 2.0 and I also have dodged Microsoft's requirement for an Internet login.  Hope this helps someone as well.   
   - Thanks to https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/bypass-windows-11-tpm-requirement and https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-without-microsoft-account.  I used their techniques and the hardware requirements were avoided (but even with 8GB of RAM and a decent CPU - still dog slow).
   - Encountered issues with the non-Internet account part: using stated ms-cxh:localonly didn't work (couldn't be found) but the later referenced  OOBE\BYPASSRNO seemingly worked (installation completed).
   - After the final reboot Win11 still wanted a Microsoft account.  Because it was a VM I removed the NIC from the configuration and rebooted (you could probably unplug the cable for physical hardware).  Microsoft then wanted WiFi but an alternative here (click on it and muddle your way through) allowed me to create a local account (however with passwordless login).  Adding the NIC back and a subsequent reboot allowed network connectivity along with local login.
Next stop: Get my wife off of Win10 and onto Devuan...  Anyone used Crossover Office if LibreOffice simply isn't acceptable?