Comment by yjftsjthsd-h

18 hours ago

Alpine is also pretty good as a desktop OS; I've got a desktop and laptop on Alpine, and another laptop on postmarketos (Alpine derivative).

Interesting, I had looked at postmarketos but it was too bloated for me perhaps the last time I looked as compared to tinycore which was truly super minimalist

Like is there a way to get postmarketos with something like jwm or anything small perhaps? I would love to give alpine desktop a try, I think I did the disservice of not trying it enough then if you mention this

  • IMO the only reason to use postmarketos is if your hardware doesn't support normal Alpine. If you've got a normal x86 machine, just install Alpine, run setup-xorg-base, apk add jwm, maybe some minor setup I'm forgetting, and you're set.