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~keystone

I've heard good things about alpine myself. Might try it later over the holidays. My journey was from Windows xp to 8 to 10 and after that to Ubuntu, Pop Os, Endeavour, Archcraft and finally Arch.

My friend has been egging me on to try elementary and debian but i think i'll stick with arch or arch based distros for personal use.

What would you say is the best part about alpine?

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~jr wrote:

the simplicity and therefore reliability. the only crashes or incidents were caused by me; i can't say that about any other operating system i've used, even OpenBSD. i love BSDs because they are always simple and reliable, but alpine never fails. ever. granted, i'm a moderate user (not a power user) so if you're like me you'll never run into a problem. the only quirk that isn't detrimental is musl libc; *some* programs don't run but tbh if you can't run it on alpine nowadays, you probably should look for an alternative because that means it's some sort of hyperspecific nvidia thing or whatever.

alpine is the openbsd of linux, and can run on every hardware i've tried (unlike openbsd)