This might be the dumbest stuff anyone has asked here, but has anyone tried running Alpine as a desktop base OS? Seems pretty well stocked when it comes to the repo, and it’s light asf.
Thoughts?
I did for some time. There’s beauty in the simplicity and flexibility of Alpine, plus BusyBox is great once you understand all the weird quirks between it and
coreutils. As unpopular as it might be, I actually really like OpenRC. Alpine feels pretty close to BSD if you’re familiar with that family of operating systems. These days I use it for just about all my servers save for a few Nix boxes.If you decide to explore this route, here are a couple tools I found useful at the start:
- Conty - A single executable that launches applications in a standalone Linux Container
- x11docker - Run GUI apps and desktop environments in docker and podman containers.
Also might behoove you to check out Alpine community’s documentation on chroots in case you need specific software that isn’t available otherwise.
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There is nothing stopping you from doing so
@emiellr
I did it for a while and I’m about to do it againI saw a video on this exact topic a while ago, it was pretty interesting. Not enough to make me move off Arch (BTW), but I could see it used on some old hardware if I felt like tinkerin’.
@funkajunk @emiellr or Chimera Linux.
Thank I’ll check it out
Arch (BTW)
I see what you did there
Sorry for the reddit link, I don’t know of a mirror. This was posted just today, running on an EeePC:
Ayo wtf, that desktop is pretty asf. Well done!
Not my post btw, just sharing the link :)
Oh right, I forgot. Ahem… REDDIT?! HERESY!!1!
It’s absolutely fine, even if something is missing you can solve that with distrobox or similar tools.
I tried to get it running on a 2 GiB RAM laptop I’ve got, but couldn’t get wifi to work at all
Damn that’s a shame
I know! Will definitely try again at the next release. So far I’m running a minimal install of Arch without DE (only running Sway) and it works pretty well, but I’m not a fan of the bleeding edge release schedule. Wouls prefer something more stable, especially for that laptop which I don’t plan on using as my daily driver
Use Debian
Let me guess, Broadcom
Back in my day Broadcom was the company that causes non stop problems
The current installer was borked so i tried Void for my server.
Btw, Xorg has no permission for video on my Void notebook? I ask here since both are somewhat similiar.
brother this has nothing to do with my post 😂
Should have been attached to another answer.
