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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:
Also might behoove you to check out Alpine community's documentation on chroots in case you need specific software that isn't available otherwise.