Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 23:56:25 +0200 (CEST)
From: nubesu@tuta.io
To: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
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Subject: Why'd you go with Alpine Linux?
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It's a silly question, I know, but idk, I wanted to write something to this mailing list haha. In my case, the answer isn't that deep: I wanted a challenge, I thought of Alpine as something hard to use, so I wanted to try and see how much I could pull off. And of course, I'd also read that it was low end friendly, which was really important to me, I think I spent like 2 or 3 days setting up my desktop environment and relevant configs, reading wikis, guides, trying to get everything exactly how I like it and how I was used to. 

But honestly, after that "complicated" start, I really liked it, and it's been a super stable experience, I've barely changed my initial setup because everything works for what I need and everything is how it should be. I stayed with Alpine after finishing that personal challenge because after building my desktop environment for the first time and getting under the hood like I never had with any other distro, it felt like "mine", for me, my Alpine is my favorite distro because it's an OS I tailored to myself, it's not perfect, but I'm honestly totally in love with it. I find it really hard to see myself moving away from Alpine anytime soon, I just feel at home here... anyway, what's your story?