Now just stop using Chrome and you'll be golden
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Haha ๐ yea i use Firefox mostly but I have chrome for school stuff and it loads yt a lot faster
I'm curious: What made you choose Alpine specifically and what were you using before?
I mainly chose Alpine because of my horrible hardware, I only have 4gb of ram and a Haswell Celeron so I wanted something really light while still being usable. As for what I was using before it was Debian but I have jumped around a lot, Arch, Debian, Fedora, Mint, FreeBSD, etc.
Understandable. I also had a weaker PC until recently and love what Linux was able to do with it even though I haven't personally tested Alpine. Your rice is also really beautiful for such a minimal system.
Alpine is cool. apk is freakishly fast. I mean, like FREAKishly fast.
PostmarketOS is using Alpine as their base as well.
I had problems with containers though. I would like to revisit it and see if I can get them working
I like seeing work being put into musl as well.
Boxkit, which is Alpine based, is probably the most useful OCI container OOTB: https://github.com/ublue-os/boxkit
Lots of cool stuff. Don't stop the learnin'
Pretty good distro, tbh. Should be a pleasant experience if you don't hesitate to dig into packaging software or use flatpak occasionally: I've used it for a short while, but switched due to quite small number of packages in the repos.
Love that wallpaper, would you be willing to share it?
I second that, really like it a lot!
Cool. I also iluse Alpine as my desktop.
Question though. When I use Xfce, I don't have a network monitor in my systray. What did you install to make this work? Or did you jus use the setup-desktop script?
After you install and get to your Xfce desktop just follow these steps
Oh, I should know this haha, I made the last edit on that page...
Lookin' good!
Alpine on a chromebox/chromebook?
yea
Could it run on a old desktop? (Core 2 duo, 3gb ram, HDD, ati sapphire x1650)
I don't have anything else and windows is absolutely shit on it (yes it's a 64 bit system)
Yea it would run on it linke any other distro, but you wouldn't be able to multi task. I reasently installed Debian 32bit on an lenovo ideapead from 2013 with a 1 core 2 threads at 1.2ghz, 2G of ram and a HDD it runs KDE Plasma and will load anything as your pations are strong enough
But you could also run Alpine it will probably use less ram then debian. But I am farmiliar with apt, systemd and gnu software so yea. It is easier for me to give it to my small step sis as a research device with Firefox. I think Debian with KDE plasma uses about 630MB and with xfce around 300-400MB. But I think she is better of with KDE as she primary uses windows in school and it looks more like it
It should run perfectly fine, Alpine is made to run on low-end machines and containers