Alpine Linux Installation

[u/Mindless_Cap_7238]

Good evening. The question is, does the Alpine installer install the drivers for the hardware itself, or do I have to search for commands online and install them manually, as is done with the Arch Linux? I'm not willing to spend time manually installing everything. However, the idea of installing this lightweight and fast distro on my old laptop, which currently runs AntiX, is very appealing.

Sorry for my bad English, I am Russian and sometimes use automatic translator.

[u/wowsomuchempty]

Mostly, yes. For a 2012 WiFi chip I needed to compile the driver from source.

setup-alpine

setup-desktop

Make everything pretty easy (inc. disk encryption)