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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:38:10 +0200
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Cc: <~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org>
Subject: Re: Thinking about using Alpine edge on my desktop, how stable is
 it?
From: "fossdd" <fossdd@pwned.life>
To: "Unicorn" <unicorn@regrow.earth>, "revsuine" <pid1@revsuine.xyz>
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On Mon Aug 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM CEST, Unicorn wrote:
>> I've not tried, but as I understand it musl is not great for video=20
>> games (or at
>> least the modern proprietary ones, maybe the more fossy ones work=20
>> better?), so
>> it's maybe not for people who want to play games on their PC.
>
> Just to add to this, Flatpak is still a good option for compatibility=20
> with proprietary glibc-only games on Alpine, for example using Lutris or=
=20
> Steam from Flathub. I've also had success running games in Incus (lxc)=20
> containers, though that's not as easy to set up.

Also distrobox is a very easy way to setup a environment with another
distro which uses glibc, since makes sure the home directory is shared
etc.