I use Alpine as my personal laptop OS. There's a lot of unfortunate things, like the fact that a package upgrade or install will often uninstall other packages

I use Alpine as my personal laptop OS. There's a lot of unfortunate things, like the fact that a package upgrade or install will often uninstall other packages which your system needs, and you spend half a day fixing it. Package/config backup and restore is a PITA and I still don't quite understand it. Getting a full GUI desktop set up is also a PITA and requires a lot of research and trial and error. Things like Bluetooth Audio seem unnecessarily buggy/difficult. And it takes a while to figure out what isn't going to work with libmusl, and the workarounds thereof. It's also pretty hard to try to contribute to the community. But overall, I prefer it to the more bloated modern distros. There's less complexity, it's snappier (I use an old laptop), and nothing gets shoved down your throat. Flatpak makes using 3rd party or bigger glibc apps a breeze. To get 1Password GUI to work using Docker took quite a bit of experimenting but it worked out in the end.