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Alpine as a desktop OS
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I have been using Alpine as my main desktop system
If you need gaming, or you have a Nvidia GPU, your idea is dead on the water, not having glibc makes nvidia drivers impossible to use.
But that aside, the desktop feels snappy, the system is extremely small so knowing exactly how everything is running/working, and OpenRC is a breath of fresh air compared to the 'do everything' SystemD. All pieces of Alpine just does one thing, which makes things really predictable.
Albeit, my path isn't without hiccups, for example X11 made suspend when the lid closes outright crash X11, so was forced into Wayland And Pipewire, I have to restart it whenever I switch from the computer speakers to headphones or vice-versa
You'll find some small bugs and small issues, but if you really want a more spartan and simplistic way to handle your linux box, it is amazing
Also, APK is the best package manager, I felt in love with it
Oh interesting, didn't think of Graphics drivers getting in the way. It'll go on a Framework laptop, most if not everything should work ootb... ~famous last words~
Its possible to install glibc on Alpine. https://hatchjs.com/alpine-linux-install-full-glibc/
That is fake https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=glibc*&branch=edge&repo=&arch=&maintainer= I have felt for it too, but glibc-full doesn't exist I have found a package on github though, that claims to add glibc, but whenever I tried to use it to, for example, run the nvidia installer, the entire thing just segfaults
Sorry for the bad link, I will be more careful for the next time.
In the official website, the glibc page was updated with a new glibc layer. You can also check if you have "nouveau" drivers for Nvidia.
Nouveau sadly doesn't work for me, it's abysmally bad performance even on X11
And the new compat layer is new for me, might give it a try