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Alpine as a desktop OS (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This might be the dumbest stuff anyone has asked here, but has anyone tried running Alpine as a desktop base OS? Seems pretty well stocked when it comes to the repo, and it's light asf.

Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I saw a video on this exact topic a while ago, it was pretty interesting. Not enough to make me move off Arch (BTW), but I could see it used on some old hardware if I felt like tinkerin'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNYtJ3jyMRs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

@funkajunk @emiellr or Chimera Linux.

https://chimera-linux.org/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thank I'll check it out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Arch (BTW)

I see what you did there