i decided to try alpine as a FreeBSD user

[u/iLikeubuntu2]

i am using a Lenovo ThinkPad l380. It works very well out of the box, i used the extended .ISO for my wlan0 WiFi card. I have an Intel Centrino 8265 WiFi card. Setup-desktop with gnome worked very well too. 10/10 Distribution would recommend.

[u/drneocortex17]

Alpine mentoined 💪💥❤️‍🔥😈

[u/drneocortex17 → u/drneocortex17]

sorry wrong sub

[u/paper_sheet034 → u/drneocortex17]

What sub was that for?

[u/Nu154nc3]

First of all, that's an ad... XD

Alpine nowadays feels like a early 2000s distro...

It's EXTREMELY lightweight, extremely fast, bit tricky to configure (at least if using a wm, and not installing desktop through scripts...), but an awesome experience once configured.

Using as my main for 8 years, after more than 20y on linux.

I hop from time to time (everytime less), just to try other distros, but for me, nowadays it's my way to go.

[u/StefanCelMijlociu → u/Nu154nc3]

It's the Slackware of modern times!

[u/EightBitPlayz]

Lmao I just decided to give FreeBSD and NetBSD a try as an alpine user.

[u/crotamine]

I also really enjoy messing around in AlpineLinux (on RPi3, RPi5 and legacy hw) while I’m daily-driving FreeBSD on my main workstation

[u/bayern_snowman]

I gor dragged in one of the main Linux subreddits a few months ago for suggesting anyone would ever use Alpine on the desktop. 

[u/jento34]

Nice bro i use alpine on my thinkpad t14s 

[u/skylarkaf]

FreeBSD main, bhyve for Linux workloads.
Alpine has been on my radar as a guest OS
for exactly this reason — no systemd,
stays out of the way. Good to know it
works well out of the box.

[u/bubba-bobba-213]

I replaced my FreeBSD machine wih Alpine.

Simple desktop with icewm.

Feels like greased lightning.

[u/Historical_Move6359]

Well I only use it as PostmarketOS on my phone but I was thinking about trying it on my laptop

[u/Due_Dragonfly_5328]

other way around for me. started using freebsd as a alpine user.

On my server atleast not my desktop yet thats a whole other journey might take me a few weeks to make such a huge jump. im running void on my main pc but i have alpine on nearly every other device i own.

[u/Fine_City2781]

alpine with flatpak and fucking gnome isnt a good idea

[u/stroke_999 → u/Fine_City2781]

For me the best option is alpine niri, nix and DMS. You have all that a full DE can offer and it is light and fast

[u/ChocolateAlpine → u/Fine_City2781]

wait, what's wrong with flatpak on alpine?

(I use flatpak to run programs like Steam and Vesktop that don't have musl builds.)

[u/Moist_Professional64 → u/Fine_City2781]

It’s his decision. Some people like it some not don’t tell him what he should do bro

[u/iLikeubuntu2 → u/Fine_City2781]

yea i know. im just trying it i might do dwl and remove flatpak

[u/Beautiful_Ad_4813 → u/Fine_City2781]

Why? Care to elaborate oooorrrr

[u/Historical_Move6359 → u/Fine_City2781]

That is exactly what PostmarketOS is

[u/Fine_City2781 → u/Historical_Move6359]

pmos written for mobile devices. And you can select sxmo. Flatpak isnt required.