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Yeah, Alpine was clearly the wrong choice -- I was just hoping I could get away with something very small and my requirements seem tiny...
But on a second thought, my requirements are not that small - a modern browser, tor, and it must work on a laptop... If only I could get off the mainweb...
Jan 25 · 11 days ago
At least you learned some things, and shared the results. So it's a net positive.
@Addison you'd be surprised at how well Alpine can work for people who run minimalist setups. See for instance https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/06/Praise-for-Alpine-Linux.html
That said I personally prefer NixOS both for configuration versioning and for easily rebuilding systems.
☕️ hellfire103 · Jan 30 at 11:01:
On FreeBSD, I just use DSBMC for automount.
Alpine Linux it is... — Well, I moved my main machine to Alpine Linux. I installed XFCE for now, to get a better sense of it. Alpine seems to not automount USB drives, which was something that annoyed me to no end with FreeBSD... Maybe there is a way to do it, as I have a stack of backup drives that I need to work on... I botched the XFCE install a little by screwing around with X a bit, so the login screen flashes for a second and disappears... It's still there and I can log in, but I can't...