It depends on the level of familiarity you have with Linux distros. Alpine is simple, but it might be a bit hard to understand without first understand what eac

It depends on the level of familiarity you have with Linux distros. Alpine is simple, but it might be a bit hard to understand without first understand what each component does (e.g., initramfs, GRUB). In that case, installing a Linux distro via chroot method and get it up running as a desktop might be a better place to start. Alpine simplicity would makes sense after then. Otherwise, I'd recommend installing Alpine in a VM and play with it for a week. On a lower level, alpine-base[1], alpha-baselayout[2], and alpine-conf[3] might be a point of interest. alpine-conf contains several scripts for bootstrapping the entire system (e.g. setup-disk/setup-bootable/update-kernel). Following what these scripts does can get very far into understanding how a distro is put together. [1]: https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/alpine-base/APKBUILD https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/alpine-base/APK... [2]: https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/alpine-baselayout/APKBUILD https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/alpine-baselayo... [3]: https://git.alpinelinux.org/alpine-conf/tree/ https://git.alpinelinux.org/alpine-conf/tree/