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Comment by 🚀 stack

Re: "Alpine Linux it is..."

In: s/Linux

@zetamacs: those were definitely up on my list; Alpine seemed like the best instant gratification distro - small, reliable and secure. After my stint with FreeBSD I didn't feel like screwing around too much.

🚀 stack [OP]

Jan 22 · 8 weeks ago

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🚀 stack [OP] · Jan 22 at 22:06:

Crap. I can see this is going to be death by papercuts. I think I will try Void Linux next, with glibc

🖥️ zetamacs · Jan 22 at 23:43:

@stack Yeah, good call. musl's great, but if "just work" is what you're after, that's not what you want.

🚀 stack [OP] · Jan 22 at 23:48:

Hah, I am writing this from Void linux :)

🐝 Addison · Jan 25 at 17:20:

Isn't Alpine meant for containers? I can appreciate the novelty of using it as a desktop OS, but I stopped distro-hopping for a reason. This sounds like more of a headache than it's worth.

I admire your tenacity!

🚀 stack [OP] · Jan 25 at 18:33:

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...

🐝 Addison · Jan 25 at 20:54:

At least you learned some things, and shared the results. So it's a net positive.

🤖 gamma · Jan 26 at 01:38:

@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.

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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...

💬 stack · 12 comments · Jan 22 · 2 months ago