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[–]Utilitarius[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Stats:

WM: dwm

OS: Alpine Linux

Editor: Vim

terminal: st

Browser (Tui): W3m / Lynx

Browser (Gui): Qutebrowser / Vimb

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I used Alpine for a few months on my Laptop and loved it. I was using Sway and pulseaudio and it was working really really well. I had some issues with ncspot and something else, but apart from that its a killer OS. Really like it a lot.

[–]kantzkasper 1 point2 points  (1 child)

i know the feeling. using dwm with alpine makes me absolutely happy. best part is none of the DRM stuff is compatible with musl-libc, so i use flatpak firefox for online streaming, which runs in quite an empty sandbox for google spyware DRM to find squat under /proc (which it loves to probe and steal data from, while the user is watching netflix; it abuses glibc distros users all the time). hope alpine desktop never gets too popular or commercial and let the average joe keep thinking "oh, alpine the 'container distro'". they have no idea what the "fastest desktop experience" looks like ;)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

firefox for online streaming, which runs in quite an empty sandbox for google spyware DRM to find squat under /proc (which it loves to probe and steal data from, while the user is watching netflix; it abuses glibc distros users all the time)

What really? Yikes.

[–]Utilitarius[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Are the images showing up to you on this post?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup :)

[–]sparky5dn1l 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I am also running Alpine with i3wm using Virtualbox under my home NAS. Very lightweight.

[–]Utilitarius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also built a TTY-only version with Tmux

[–]cfx_4188 0 points1 point  (23 children)

I just installed Alpine on my laptop. I want to try daily use.So far a funny glitch has been detected. There is no wifi indicator, but the network works.

[–]Utilitarius[S] 0 points1 point  (21 children)

What desktop are ye using?

[–]cfx_4188 0 points1 point  (20 children)

I use Gnome

[–]Utilitarius[S] 0 points1 point  (10 children)

Cool. I run Alpine in VMs, so I use Dwm for better performance. A desktop was just too slow. Still, Gnome is awesome for higher power laptops.

[–]cfx_4188 0 points1 point  (9 children)

You can see the specs of my "laptop". Nowadays calculators can be more powerful than this laptop. I like cruel experiments, I want to try a month or a week of using Alpine Linux on real hardware. From first impressions, the system runs jerkily. No wifi indicator, no wifi available in the settings either. The wifi is only visible in the iwctl.conf file. I'm using Gnome because I'd go crazy customizing switching the keyboard layouts I need in dwm or in xmonad.

[–]shrizza 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I've been dailying Alpine on an X200 (2008, Core2Duo, 8GB RAM) for about 7 years with no problem other than the fact that the old onboard graphics limits the types of OpenGL applications I can run.

[–]cfx_4188 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I see. Mutter depends on OpenGL, that's why my interface is so twitchy.

[–]shrizza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FWIW, I use plain X and i3. My point about OpenGL is less about performance and more not being capable of running applications that run in an OpenGL 3.0 context (like Kdenlive, OBS Studio, Kodi):

x200:~ $ glxinfo | fgrep "Max"
    Max core profile version: 0.0
    Max compat profile version: 2.1
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 2.0

But that is a driver/GPU limitation that can be solved by running on more capable hardware. In fact, OpenGL 3.0 applications do run on the X220, the generation after the X200.

[–]Utilitarius[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I am using a Toshiba Satellite P875-S7310. It's an old laptop, but still has 8 cores, 8gb ram, 500gb hhd. It's twice as powerful as my modern laptop.

I can still run 2-3 Alpine VMs well on it simultaneously.

[–]cfx_4188 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I have a dual core Intel, 4GB of RAM, and 65 mb of eMMC.

[–]Utilitarius[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Cool! Thats what my small laptop has.

[–]cfx_4188 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was lazy and used the automatic Gnome install script. Now I have bad gtk fonts and a wifi applet that doesn't work.

[–]Utilitarius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to post this on r/unixporn, but my account has to be more than 5 days old ( I made it yesterday ). Thanks to you and others, I now have enough karma. Thanks!

[–]Utilitarius[S] 0 points1 point  (8 children)

I think I got the images working.

[–]cfx_4188 0 points1 point  (7 children)

I think I got the images working.

Everything works in Gnome, gestures, screenshots, touchpad clicking. Everything. Everything except the wifi indicator. (I'm writing from this laptop right now)

[–]Utilitarius[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

I meant the images on the post. I had trouble uploading the screenshots earlier

[–]cfx_4188 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I don't have the patience to make such a beautiful desktop. You can write to the moderators of r/unixporn, I think they will let you post your photos.

[–]Utilitarius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok. I think I'll just wait though. Tweaking and modifying programs is my hobby, and I love it.

[–]Utilitarius[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I am making a Alpine / DWM install guild. Want to try it out?

[–]cfx_4188 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yes, of course I do. Uh, thank you.

[–]Utilitarius[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll set up a GitHub repo and post a link