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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 10:08:46 +0200
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To: <spoon@keemail.me>, "Camelia Lavender" <cam@camelia.dev>
Cc: "~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org"
 <~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org>
Subject: Re: Thinking about using Alpine edge on my desktop, how stable is
 it?
From: "fossdd" <fossdd@pwned.life>
References: <5297f63e-53ba-4591-837b-aac9436cb4d9@camelia.dev>
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In-Reply-To: <OWnxUBI--F-9@keemail.me>

On Mon Aug 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM CEST,  wrote:
> 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 yo=
u use it for desktop. Better stick to Arch or Fedora for desktop.

This is not true. Alpine Linux is a general-purpose distro. Of course
for many (maybe most) developers the focus is in headless environments
(e.g. containers and servers), but, for example, I, do care and am
permanently involved in Alpine desktops (in the scope as a
postmarketOS developer, but for Alpine aswell).

>
>
>
> Aug 4, 2025, 06:23 by cam@camelia.dev:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> First of all, I want to thank all the people who make Alpine possible, i=
t is a really awesome distribution! Much love to you <3
>>
>> I've been using Alpine Linux on my VPS since several months and I am lov=
ing it so much that I'm considering switching to it on my desktop as well. =
I am thinking about using the rolling release (edge) for my desktop, and I =
was wondering whether some people in here in have been running it for some =
time.
>>
>> More specifically, my questions are the following:
>>
>> - In your experience, with proper maintenance (regular system upgrades, =
updating configuration files, etc.), did Alpine edge (*without* the testing=
 repository enabled) often break in the past?
>> - Same question but *with* the testing repository enabled?
>>
>> Of course, I know that this question doesn't give any guarantee and I al=
so understand that by enabling the testing repository my system will be mor=
e prone to errors. I guess I just want to hear from people who have more ex=
perience with Alpine than I currently do.
>> --=20
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Camelia Lavender (she/they)
>> PGP: 0xDBCC70EFBC360E97
>>