This might be the dumbest stuff anyone has asked here, but has anyone tried running Alpine as a desktop base OS? Seems pretty well stocked when it comes to the repo, and it's light asf.
Thoughts?
It's absolutely fine, even if something is missing you can solve that with distrobox or similar tools.
Sorry for the reddit link, I don't know of a mirror. This was posted just today, running on an EeePC:
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1fitgri/labwc_pimp_your_10_inches_laptop_with_alpine_linux/
I saw a video on this exact topic a while ago, it was pretty interesting. Not enough to make me move off Arch (BTW), but I could see it used on some old hardware if I felt like tinkerin'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNYtJ3jyMRs
I tried to get it running on a 2 GiB RAM laptop I've got, but couldn't get wifi to work at all
I know! Will definitely try again at the next release. So far I'm running a minimal install of Arch without DE (only running Sway) and it works pretty well, but I'm not a fan of the bleeding edge release schedule. Wouls prefer something more stable, especially for that laptop which I don't plan on using as my daily driver
The current installer was borked so i tried Void for my server.
Btw, Xorg has no permission for video on my Void notebook? I ask here since both are somewhat similiar.