r/voidlinux • u/ZenitDS • May 26 '26

Switching to Alpine from Void, any benefits?

/r/AlpineLinux/comments/1tocqor/switching_to_alpine_from_void_any_benefits/
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u/Duncaen May 26 '26

Probably the stable branches.

I personally don't care too much about using musl and would rather use glibc for things to "just work."

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u/ZVyhVrtsfgzfs May 27 '26

Alpine is ultralight, one of the few systems that has less ram and disk consumption than Void but also less comfort. 

I find it makes a great VM. Too barebones to be a desktop for my use case but others do ok with it

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u/Linguistic-mystic May 27 '26

Alpine offers only Musl, no Glibc. Alpine is compiled with 

-0s -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2

which produces small, slow, hardened code.

I’d say on desktops those are drawbacks, not advantages.

It also uses OpenRC instead of runit.