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What problems did you encounter? I installed Alpine on some laptops for desktop use and never had a problem except with one HP small netbook where the energy ma

What problems did you encounter? I installed Alpine on some laptops for desktop use and never had a problem except with one HP small netbook where the energy management seems broken as the kernel rewrites somewhere the screen backlight value with a value of 4 (= almost invisible) as soon as I pull the DC plug but doesn't update it when I plug it back. This also happens with ACPI and all power management uninstalled, so I sorta solved this by installing ACPI and making scripts to echo the right value back. This problem aside, I could install a lot of non trivial things, including for example WINE and Yabridge to use music plugins. Unless the system pulled them unbeknownst to me, I made no use of flatpaks and the like. The more I use Alpine, the more I like it.

LoganDark 4y ago
> What problems did you encounter? I personally found it difficult to get Nvidia drivers & Steam working. The latter worked with flatpaks, but Nvidia is always annoying. Yes. You may laugh at me for trying to use Linux on a computer that was not built for it.
- squarefoot 4y ago
  One of my favorite quotes, no idea about the author or the date, is "discoveries are made by not following instructions". Laughing because you're trying to get more from a machine that is built to give less would be really stupid; that is actually clever and admirable, and when one succeeds it gives extreme satisfaction. As for Nvidia drivers I can't help because my last experience with their cards is quite old, possibly older than the Nouveau drivers, but keep trying; it couldn't be a Alpine Linux failure as Nvidia, according to a famous Linus Torvalds quote, has already been less than friendly to Linux developers in the past.
  - Gordonjcp 4y ago
    And yet NVidia have the only graphics cards with working 3D acceleration and GPU compute capabilities.
    - LoganDark 4y ago
      Not true. It's just that AMD reserves those capabilities for the expensive server cards whereas Nvidia allows regular desktop gaming cards to do everything.
- LAC-Tech 4y ago
  I bought a barebones PC specifically for my linux work station. One criteria from the outset was no NVIDIA.
euclaise 4y ago
Can't have CUDA without nvidia, and can't have nvidia without glibc

LoganDark 4y ago

> What problems did you encounter? I personally found it difficult to get Nvidia drivers & Steam working. The latter worked with flatpaks, but Nvidia is always annoying. Yes. You may laugh at me for trying to use Linux on a computer that was not built for it.

squarefoot 4y ago
One of my favorite quotes, no idea about the author or the date, is "discoveries are made by not following instructions". Laughing because you're trying to get more from a machine that is built to give less would be really stupid; that is actually clever and admirable, and when one succeeds it gives extreme satisfaction. As for Nvidia drivers I can't help because my last experience with their cards is quite old, possibly older than the Nouveau drivers, but keep trying; it couldn't be a Alpine Linux failure as Nvidia, according to a famous Linus Torvalds quote, has already been less than friendly to Linux developers in the past.
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
  And yet NVidia have the only graphics cards with working 3D acceleration and GPU compute capabilities.
  - LoganDark 4y ago
    Not true. It's just that AMD reserves those capabilities for the expensive server cards whereas Nvidia allows regular desktop gaming cards to do everything.
LAC-Tech 4y ago
I bought a barebones PC specifically for my linux work station. One criteria from the outset was no NVIDIA.

euclaise 4y ago

Can't have CUDA without nvidia, and can't have nvidia without glibc