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Alpine as a desktop OS (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month 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] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've dabbled in it, but not really committed to it. It's a great lightweight server of course. I am a KDE Plasma user so I did a quick test of that and was able to install it via Alpine, but at the time, the support for javaws was not there which I needed at the time for my job, so that killed my plans on using it. I may venture back to it later on .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Iff you're a VSCode user, you might benefit greatly from Dev Containers. You'll basically be running Docker containers, which can run almost anything of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm also a Plasma user, and I decided to try it out in a vm yesterday after reading this thread. It didn't appear to play nicely in a vm. It was honestly the weirdest thing. Lots of freezes in my plasma session. Not the only distro that has problems in a vm, but still unexpected.

Anyways, there were a lot more packages for it than I initially thought. However, still lacked some things that I wanted to use, and like nixOS it seems different enough that I would need to put in a bit of work to get those things working on alpine.