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Subject: Re: Why'd you go with Alpine Linux?
From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>
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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:55:36 +0200
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First of all, I=E2=80=99d like to say that a distro built on BusyBox and Mu=
sl
has its advantages. Alpine is, without a doubt, an excellent distro.

However, I have a hard time with some of the statements because I can=E2=80=
=99t
quite wrap my head around them.

On Thu, 2026-04-02 at 20:58 +0200, Wolfgang Klein wrote:
> with full KDE desktop

For me, as someone who uses the command line instead of file managers
and who doesn=E2=80=99t use a desktop environment at all (just a window man=
ager)
regardless of what Linux or FreeeBSD based BSD I run, I don=E2=80=99t see t=
he
point of installing a bloated desktop environment on top of a system
based on BusyBox and Musl, nor do I see how it ends up being any lighter
than any user-friendly major distro.

On Thu, 2026-04-02 at 22:07 +0200, Jerome Marc wrote:
> I prefer the apk package manager (vs apt) because it's easier to
> control which software you install overtime.

There=E2=80=99s no question that building deb packages is a hassle, it hard=
ly
gets any worse than that (and even that happens), but I don=E2=80=99t under=
stand
why it should be a problem with apt to keep track of which software
you=E2=80=99ve installed over time. Could you please explain in what way ap=
t is
supposed to be worse in this regard than any other package manager for
any other package format?