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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] 7 points 2 months ago

It's absolutely fine, even if something is missing you can solve that with distrobox or similar tools.