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The visions of a Redhat fanboy I think. I’ve started using Alpine linux for just about everything the last couple years. Instead of layers upon layers of redire
by zxcvbn4038 6y ago
The visions of a Redhat fanboy I think. I’ve started using Alpine linux for just about everything the last couple years. Instead of layers upon layers of redirection and obfuscation, gnu politics, and systemd doing it’s own thing, Alpine just boots and gets out of your way. It’s proven itself to me on both bare metal and in containers. It would not be an amazing desktop when compared to a Mac, but very few things are.
- curt15 6y ago>It would not be an amazing desktop when compared to a Mac On a Mac: * apps are shipped in self-contained bundles * launchd inspired the design of systemd * the base system is shipped as an immutable image in a APFS sealed volume, and there's a clear separation between the base system and the user's apps. So Macs actually implement the vision outlined by this article. In the Linux land, Fedora Silverblue probably comes closest (although comparatively lacking in polish).
- viraptor 6y agoIt's not really a redhat fanboy. All the elements are coming to pretty much any not-minimalistic distribution. Alpine describes itself as "Linux distribution designed for power users who appreciate security, simplicity and resource efficiency." There's a significant number of non-power-users who appreciate more advanced things working out of the box, even if it means more resources when not using all the advenced things.