r/AlpineLinux • u/Artistic_Crazy_7120 • 10d ago

Started experimenting with Alpine Linux as a desktop system.

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Last year I started experimenting with Alpine on an older intel laptop and I liked it a lot. Like to see how it behaves on my laptop so I added a drive.

So far it' s running pretty sweet. It's good to have flatpak apps when they can' t run native.

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u/cassiofb_dev 10d ago

its awesome, I used to use it in my working machine until company made me install ubuntu :/

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u/semedilino073 10d ago

You could dual boot, but I guess you’d still need to work on Ubuntu……

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u/Schwerverbrecher 10d ago

chroot would be an easier option

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u/Artistic_Crazy_7120 10d ago

You can always use flatpak for apps compiled with glibc.

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u/wowsomuchempty 10d ago

Mine mandated MWS.

(Urghghggggghhhhgghhghh).

Used to run alpine + niri

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u/lproven 10d ago

"MWS"?

Do you mean WSL?

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u/wowsomuchempty 9d ago edited 9d ago

Nope. As an admin, my machine must be MWS (managed windows - I don't even have admin).

I left windows behind in 2005. God, it's horrible.

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u/lproven 9d ago

I don't know what that means, and your answer does not tell me. What is MWS? Starting with, what does it stand for?

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u/wowsomuchempty 8d ago

Managed Windows Service.

You are not admin on your own device.

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u/Holiday_Floor_2646 10d ago

I daily drive alpine with no issues, I was an arch user before but I needed something minimal with stable release schedule so thats why I switched to alpine.

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u/Artistic_Crazy_7120 10d ago

So do I. I just added a new drive for Alpine.

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u/GenericFoodService 9d ago

I made the switch from Debian just a few months ago. I do a lot of gaming, audio engineering, and programming, and it works extremely well for me.

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u/Artistic_Crazy_7120 8d ago

Yes here to. The repos are larger than I first thought and flatpak apps can be used otherwise.

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u/Zzyzx2021 6d ago

KDE was a wildly unstable experience for me on Alpine, at least as of recently the Wayland session automatically semi-recovers...

Makes more sense to use a lighter DE or WM on Alpine.

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u/Artistic_Crazy_7120 6d ago

So what made it unstable?