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?

  • dotslashme@infosec.pub
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    2 months ago

    It's absolutely fine, even if something is missing you can solve that with distrobox or similar tools.

  • drspod@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    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/

  • funkajunk@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    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

  • glaber@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I tried to get it running on a 2 GiB RAM laptop I've got, but couldn't get wifi to work at all

      • glaber@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        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

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    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.