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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] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I tried to get it running on a 2 GiB RAM laptop I've got, but couldn't get wifi to work at all

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

Damn that's a shame

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

I know! Will definitely try again at the next release. So far I'm running a minimal install of Arch without DE (only running Sway) and it works pretty well, but I'm not a fan of the bleeding edge release schedule. Wouls prefer something more stable, especially for that laptop which I don't plan on using as my daily driver

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

Use Debian

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

What I do is use the "Arch Linux Archive" repo and set it to a specific date, which has a snapshot of all the packages from that time. That way I don't have to update all the time but can still install packages whenever I want. When I feel like updating then I just increase the date in the mirror URL. In pacman.conf you would set it like so: Server=https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/2024/08/30/$repo/os/$arch

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

Let me guess, Broadcom

Back in my day Broadcom was the company that causes non stop problems