At this point, I'm just enjoying Belenos. Devuan wasn't as difficult as I
thought when I needed modern Ruby for a quick task and I'm sure my 9 year old
and I would be just fine on it if we absolutely had to have new shiny.
I've virtualized Flidas and am looking forward to trying it on a spare hard
drive since there's a reason to now (double checking the libreboot docs, not
just amusing my own self) but agree 100% with Loldier about not rushing
things.
I momentarily thought about putting vanilla ubuntu on a not technically
interested friend's laptop and then trisquelizing it when Flidas was
released, but he is perfectly happy with Belenos so I made the right
decision. The next friend is getting Belenos too. In the circles I run in,
gratis and safe are more important than bleeding edge.
There are plenty of PPAs out there too if you need the latest release for
some particular reason.