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Is it reasonable to expect one distro of Linux to be good at everything? There are a number of comments about Alpine as a desktop OS... sure you can probably m
by mikece 6y ago
Is it reasonable to expect one distro of Linux to be good at everything? There are a number of comments about Alpine as a desktop OS... sure you can probably make it work but it seems Alpine's sweet spot is when it's used as an embedded OS or as a base for Docker containers. Isn't that good enough?
I am also curious about the "apk is seriously robust" comment: does this mean fast, stable, intuitive... or something else? If the package manager achieves it's goal I don't care about "robustness" as long as I'm not losing 10+ hours a week trying to debug something about it.
- arghwhat 6y agoRobustness has never meant speed or intuitiveness. It means resilience to breaking.
- aidenn0 6y agoIntuitiveness can lead to a type robustness with sharp tools though; if it's either easy to undo destructive operations, or hard to accidentally do destructive operations, it makes for a more robust system overall (even if it doesn't specifically affect the robustness of the component in question)
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoSure, specializing is fine, but why not use it on the desktop? I've run it on a laptop and then desktop and it's been perfectly fine.
- encryptluks2 6y agoIt isn't probably can make it work, you can make it work. It has window managers and desktop software in the default repos.