Alpine is great, if you’re not on Nvidia. Been daily driving it on bare metal and gotta say, it’s very nice. Fast package manager, OpenRC, up-to date packages and it has setup scripts for many common components like desktop environments.
It’s a nice and clean Linux distro, Alpine is great for being lean and you can get around any portential glibc problems with flatpak/chroots/virtualisation if you don’t mind, also aports (the build system) it’s pretty straightforward. the package repositories are decent and flatpak does the rest I find.
I’ve run it as a general purpose fix-it drive for a long time but it’s good for servers or routers, or decent enough on a laptop/desktop, it’s more of a hands-on approach than most other distros so I’ll find myself on the Gentoo or Arch wikis a bit of the time.
It has it’s quirks like any distro but it’s very nice once you’re used to how it works, it generally avoids complexity. I like it in that regard.
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I don’t see many people running Alpine on bare metal. It’s usually in containers.
How do you like it? I’ve been curious about trying, but haven’t found the time.
Alpine is great, if you’re not on Nvidia. Been daily driving it on bare metal and gotta say, it’s very nice. Fast package manager, OpenRC, up-to date packages and it has setup scripts for many common components like desktop environments.
It’s a nice and clean Linux distro, Alpine is great for being lean and you can get around any portential glibc problems with flatpak/chroots/virtualisation if you don’t mind, also aports (the build system) it’s pretty straightforward. the package repositories are decent and flatpak does the rest I find.
I’ve run it as a general purpose fix-it drive for a long time but it’s good for servers or routers, or decent enough on a laptop/desktop, it’s more of a hands-on approach than most other distros so I’ll find myself on the Gentoo or Arch wikis a bit of the time.
It has it’s quirks like any distro but it’s very nice once you’re used to how it works, it generally avoids complexity. I like it in that regard.