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Do u actually daily drive alpine? If so how do you get around limited packages
Yes, I daily drive it. It has plenty of packages. If I want something packaged, I request it on the aports repo: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports.
I used to have a spreadsheet of all the packages I use and their availability between distros. I think I'd like to update that and see if Alpine is viable (I like Fedora but it's getting a bit stale how good and stable it is, so I'm kinda looking forward to trying something new)
Alpine Linux Edge is surprisingly unstable. The stable version, I would assume is stable.
Personally, I'm interested in, and prefer the stable version, where that is available, with the only exception being OpenSUSE where I'd pick Tumbleweed any day of the week because it had some packages I wanted that weren't on Leap yet.
Alpine Linux itself is stable. Some of the packages are not.