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Alpine is great. I have nothing against systemd but Alpine stands on it's own for containers and VMs. I haven't given it a try on baremetal but I imagine it does just as well there. Not really desktop focused but if you want to run it with a GUI on a laptop it's technically possible.

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I've actually tried it on my new notebook a few days ago, it runs quite nice: https://www.nico.schottelius.org/blog/alpine-linux-on-the-hp...

In the benefits of Alpine, you have put that the sound is great. Out of curiosity, what makes it better than other Linux distros?

Simplicity mostly. It just works. It feels so clean, nothing running there that is not supposed to be there. Installing something takes only sub-seconds, because packages are small.

Alpine really is a beauty.

I believe your questioner was specifically referring to your assertion that audio on Alpine is unusually good. It is a somewhat odd observation, since ALSA is entirely a kernel API and Alpine is using the same kernel as everyone else. The only possible source of audible difference would be not running Pulseaudio, which resamples audio (some say, badly). However, you can install Pulseaudio on Alpine, and you can not-install Pulseaudio on most anything else, so it wouldn't really be fair to call that a feature of Alpine.

Quite nice...?

>checkout why the firefox package is broken

You call that... nice?

I currently use Alpine as my daily driver with GNOME, which is an odd mix I guess, but works nicely :)

I don't trust a "security-oriented" distribution with a small developer community:

https://threatpost.com/alpine-linux-docker-images-unlocked/1...

Note this is only an issue for docker images using non default tools. Not good but not unique, for instance here is another high scored CVE for PAM issues in Ubuntu/Debian https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2009-3232/

I challenge you to find any decade+ old OS software community you couldn't make the same comment towards.

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