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Alpine is far from a desktop distro

• yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
  Why? I've got it on a laptop and it's fine
  • keshavit 7y ago
    I agree that it's good for the desktop (I would have used it if Void Linux didn't exist) but that isn't really it's goal.
    • yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
      That's fair. I'm happy to agree that desktop was never Alpine's main goal, having initially targeted network appliances and growing a lot after being picked up for Docker images.
  • mehrdadn 7y ago
    Aren't so many packages on it out-of-date? Though I'm not sure that makes it "not-a-distro", but still...
    • yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
      Not that I've noticed (when following the latest release), and I doubt that it's worse than Debian.
      • mehrdadn 7y ago
        I just looked at their package repos and it seems it's gotten better at least for GCC and Clang. It used to be pretty bad. See my older discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18731913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18731913