• Cale@lemm.eeOP
      7·
      1 year ago

      Haha 😄 yea i use Firefox mostly but I have chrome for school stuff and it loads yt a lot faster

      • Lunch@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 year ago

        Recommend using Vivaldi if you need something chromium. Has the best god damn tab management I’ve ever tried at least.

        • iloverocks@feddit.de
          3·
          1 year ago

          I would recommend using librewolf thorium for normal task and if the site doesnt work with it i use thorium. Librewolf is slower than thorium but it is for me the better default version of Firefox. Loading yt is really slow with librewolf so I use freetube or invidious to watch content.

          • Cale@lemm.eeOP
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’ve tried installing thorium but I can’t get it to compile correctly and I don’t wanna sit there forever trying to get it working so I just gave up and installed chrome

            • iloverocks@feddit.de
              3·
              1 year ago

              So on their github are appimages, .rpm and .deb available. Idk if you can convert .deb or .rpm files to alpine compatible packages but the appimage should run eververe

              • Cale@lemm.eeOP
                1·
                1 year ago

                I’ve tried the app image and it didn’t work, I looked it up and the consensus is appimages won’t run because of musl libc instead of glibc

                • iloverocks@feddit.de
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  You could also try to convert and install the .deb or .rpm packages see here as reverence

                  Or maybe use distrobox if this doesn’t work. Pretty much anything is better than chrome

    • Cale@lemm.eeOP
      15·
      1 year ago

      I mainly chose Alpine because of my horrible hardware, I only have 4gb of ram and a Haswell Celeron so I wanted something really light while still being usable. As for what I was using before it was Debian but I have jumped around a lot, Arch, Debian, Fedora, Mint, FreeBSD, etc.

      • DrownedAxolotl@feddit.de
        6·
        1 year ago

        Understandable. I also had a weaker PC until recently and love what Linux was able to do with it even though I haven’t personally tested Alpine. Your rice is also really beautiful for such a minimal system.

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

    Wait, Alpine as a daily driver? How is it treating you? Any apparent differences?

    How much of time did you spend on your setup? Love it BTW.

    • Cale@lemm.eeOP
      9·
      1 year ago

      Treating me very well so far, very lightweight since it’s not using gnu coreutils or systemd. As for the setup they have a very well-put-together installer script just boot, log into root, type setup-alpine and follow the steps on screen, I think they also have a setup script for a bunch of desktop environments but I chose to install mine manually, although this was still very easy because of the surprisingly good documentation especially the wiki with many entries explaining step by step how to install different desktop environments, this combined with the verrryyy fast package manager makes for a great experience even on the desktop. :)

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
    9·
    1 year ago

    Pretty good distro, tbh. Should be a pleasant experience if you don’t hesitate to dig into packaging software or use flatpak occasionally: I’ve used it for a short while, but switched due to quite small number of packages in the repos.

  • baconicsynergy@beehaw.org
    8·
    1 year ago

    Alpine is cool. apk is freakishly fast. I mean, like FREAKishly fast.

    PostmarketOS is using Alpine as their base as well.

    I had problems with containers though. I would like to revisit it and see if I can get them working

    I like seeing work being put into musl as well.

    Boxkit, which is Alpine based, is probably the most useful OCI container OOTB: https://github.com/ublue-os/boxkit

    Lots of cool stuff. Don’t stop the learnin’

  • bbbhltz@beehaw.org
    4·
    1 year ago

    Cool. I also iluse Alpine as my desktop.

    Question though. When I use Xfce, I don’t have a network monitor in my systray. What did you install to make this work? Or did you jus use the setup-desktop script?

      • skqweezy@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        Could it run on a old desktop? (Core 2 duo, 3gb ram, HDD, ati sapphire x1650)

        I don’t have anything else and windows is absolutely shit on it (yes it’s a 64 bit system)

        • iloverocks@feddit.de
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yea it would run on it linke any other distro, but you wouldn’t be able to multi task. I reasently installed Debian 32bit on an lenovo ideapead from 2013 with a 1 core 2 threads at 1.2ghz, 2G of ram and a HDD it runs KDE Plasma and will load anything as your pations are strong enough

          But you could also run Alpine it will probably use less ram then debian. But I am farmiliar with apt, systemd and gnu software so yea. It is easier for me to give it to my small step sis as a research device with Firefox. I think Debian with KDE plasma uses about 630MB and with xfce around 300-400MB. But I think she is better of with KDE as she primary uses windows in school and it looks more like it

        • Cale@lemm.eeOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          It should run perfectly fine, Alpine is made to run on low-end machines and containers

  • clavismil@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Clean, looks great! I’m curious is this more lightweight than xfce mint (my prefered choice to bring back some life to old notebooks)? If it is why? I understand alpine is best choice to build light container images but I don’t know how it behave as desktop

    Could you share wp?

    • Cale@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      i think it is lighter than Mint (Xfce) but i havent used Mint (Xfce) so i dont know how much lighter it is exactly, but it uses musl libc which has a much lighter and cleaner code base than glibc and it uses busybox coreutils instead of GNU coreutils and they are again much lighter it is also using OpenRC instead of SystemD for its init system

      Wallpaper https://whvn.cc/6dlpr7

  • Presi300@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Chad Alpine user, I have used it a lot as a desktop OS before, though now I’ve relegated it to my home server, still great there