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Does anyone know where there are screenshots of this on the website? I like to see how a desktop looks before I try a new distro. Seems absent on the site
by vmoore 5y ago
Does anyone know where there are screenshots of this on the website? I like to see how a desktop looks before I try a new distro. Seems absent on the site
- bluedays 5y agoYou can install any Desktop Environment you want.
- hulitu 5y agoYou can do that in any distro. I think the OP refers to the fact that, usually the distro supplies some default config files for the DE which makes it look distro specific.
- zinekeller 5y ago... except that it's command-line by default, so the DEs has whatever Gnome/KDE decided them to look (rather than adding wallpapers and such).
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoAlpine is a bare bones / DIY distro (like Arch); it'll look like whatever DE you install.
- dougbarrett 5y agoFrom what I understand of alpine, it's commonly used for Docker images to provide a lightweight distro for your apps vs using something like ubuntu or debian which may include more than what's required. I don't believe it's intended to be used in a desktop environment, but I could be wrong.
- Seirdy 5y agoThis is false; you can install a variety of DEs from the repos.
- dougbarrett 5y agoGot it. Thanks for correcting me!
- samgranieri 5y agoYes, it's defintely used for Dockerizing apps. I've Dockerized several Ruby, Node and Elixir apps using Alpine at work.
- miggol 5y agoAlpine is more of a command-line distro. It's compact design and lack of many dependencies make it ideal for virtual servers and containers. Personally I've been eyeing it for an install on a small ARM board as a music streaming server, which it seems quite suitable for. In this case I would still connect to it over the network, still with no GUI or desktop.