I’m not trying to bait. I’ve been playing with Void for a while, but didn’t get what makes it special. I guess I’m missing something about it.
I’m not trying to bait. I’ve been playing with Void for a while, but didn’t get what makes it special. I guess I’m missing something about it.
I use Alpine as my desktop daily driver. The
setup-desktop[link] andsetup-devd[link] scripts that come with Alpine are convenient for setting up a desktop environment.There still is some extra work to get things working but the wiki has a good tutorial page which is a good start for setting up a desktop environment on Alpine.
I do think Alpine is quite flexible beyond embedded systems. That’s a lot of effort to include desktop environments in their OS or even in major version release notes.
While I’m aware that it’s completely feasible and even practical to setup desktop on alpine, what drove me away was the fact we’d be ditching musl & busybox for more full-featured solutions anyway.
I often see claims that Alpine linux is just for embedded systems. I wanted to highlight to other people that there is far more to Alpine than embedded systems or being used for containers.
It’s mininal like void but still very flexible and capable if people are willing to work with Musl, BusyBox or OpenRC. It’s a nice option for anyone who has issues with SystemD or may want to depend less on GNU tools.
Like any distribution, it doesn’t fill everyone’s wants or needs but it seems to have grown more than serving just embedded systems.