▲ 115 ▼ Alpine Linux does not make the news (drewdevault.com) submitted 3 years ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml 37 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 3 years ago (4 children) Alpine was never meant as a desktop distribution. permalink fedilink source hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] dsemy@lemm.ee 6 points 3 years ago And Linux was never meant to be anything more than a hobby project. We should all be using Hurd. permalink fedilink source parent [–] kxzaon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) I've been using it as daily driver since four or five years now. At first it was a bit difficult, we had to wait for patches for musl a lot for common desktop binaries. But now I don't even remember waiting for an update and I don't have to compile some tools myself anymore. Everything is in the repo. Yes i agree, I don't need much, it just works flawlessly with River + Foot + Firefox + Helix and I try to keep it minimal. No games, not much graphical tools. apk is such a magical tool. Never broke my edge install with it... Like Arch did with AUR. And the last install that I did recently on a remote server was just so easy with 'setup-alpine'... Way better than five years ago. The only drawback is the documentation I think... I'm using the gentoo one, which is perfect for Alpine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 3 years ago I mean you exactly underline what I said. You can use anything for desktop usage, depending on your requirements. But Alpine is not meant to be used like this. Or with requirements like yours, you basically could use anything, there is no really advantage of using Alpine for your specific needs compared to many other distros out there. I am not saying nobody should use Alpine on desktop, its just false "advertising" if you proclaim its perfectly fine to be run a s such. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago Works nicely as a phone distribution though (in the form of postmarketOS). permalink fedilink source parent [–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) expired permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dsemy@lemm.ee 6 points 3 years ago And Linux was never meant to be anything more than a hobby project. We should all be using Hurd. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kxzaon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) I've been using it as daily driver since four or five years now. At first it was a bit difficult, we had to wait for patches for musl a lot for common desktop binaries. But now I don't even remember waiting for an update and I don't have to compile some tools myself anymore. Everything is in the repo. Yes i agree, I don't need much, it just works flawlessly with River + Foot + Firefox + Helix and I try to keep it minimal. No games, not much graphical tools. apk is such a magical tool. Never broke my edge install with it... Like Arch did with AUR. And the last install that I did recently on a remote server was just so easy with 'setup-alpine'... Way better than five years ago. The only drawback is the documentation I think... I'm using the gentoo one, which is perfect for Alpine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 3 years ago I mean you exactly underline what I said. You can use anything for desktop usage, depending on your requirements. But Alpine is not meant to be used like this. Or with requirements like yours, you basically could use anything, there is no really advantage of using Alpine for your specific needs compared to many other distros out there. I am not saying nobody should use Alpine on desktop, its just false "advertising" if you proclaim its perfectly fine to be run a s such. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 3 years ago I mean you exactly underline what I said. You can use anything for desktop usage, depending on your requirements. But Alpine is not meant to be used like this. Or with requirements like yours, you basically could use anything, there is no really advantage of using Alpine for your specific needs compared to many other distros out there. I am not saying nobody should use Alpine on desktop, its just false "advertising" if you proclaim its perfectly fine to be run a s such. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago Works nicely as a phone distribution though (in the form of postmarketOS). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) expired permalink fedilink source parent