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This, from what I can see, makes Alpine rather less suitable to being a desktop OS than an embedded OS. I don't want to compile everything from source, and sometimes I can't (e.g. Steam, Dropbox).

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Not sure where compiling comes in, either it's proprietary or it's in the repo the same as any other distro.

Another point for flatpak/snap style proprietary apps distribution though - they don't assume anything about the distro will be there.

I think compiling usually comes in when it's not in the repo or proprietary.

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