Unfortunately "boring and basic and just works" is not a very accurate description of Alpine Linux. If you never want to use anything which doesn't support musl

Unfortunately "boring and basic and just works" is not a very accurate description of Alpine Linux. If you never want to use anything which doesn't support musl then it's a very pleasant and reliable distro, but not using glibc does make it relatively exotic for a linux distro and there is quite a bit of software that will have problems.