@charliebrownau @coin @furgar I'd rather recommend Devuan over Debian even for the normies.
Perhaps the only reason why you'd want to use Debian over Devuan is if you have a server side application that offers a SoystemD script, and you have no idea how to make your own script for SysV, OpenRC, Runit, S6, or whatever else (and it's really not that hard at all).