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Subject: Re: Thinking about using Alpine edge on my desktop, how stable is
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To: spoon@keemail.me, "~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org"
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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:04:20 +0100
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On Mon, 2025-08-04 at 09:22 +0200, spoon@keemail.me wrote:
>=20
> Alpine is not a desktop distro. It's only practical use is in containers =
and
> servers. You are gonna have a hard time doing anything productive if you =
use
> it for desktop. Better stick to Arch or Fedora for desktop.

It really depends on what you do on your desktop. Fwiw I've found Alpine ha=
s
better availability of desktop user software in its repos than most distros=
,
rivalled only by Arch if you use the AUR alongside official repos. I've als=
o had
no problem going from the base system that you get after a fresh Alpine ins=
tall
to a working graphical environment with basic user software (and from there=
 you
can customise and make more elaborate to your heart's delight).

I've not tried, but as I understand it musl is not great for video games (o=
r at
least the modern proprietary ones, maybe the more fossy ones work better?),=
 so
it's maybe not for people who want to play games on their PC. But I'm sure =
it's
fine if e.g. your main desktop activity is development, or web browsing, or
general productivity.

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