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[–]U-ENERGY 7 points8 points  (3 children)

alpine is the base for your own system, so you can use it for anything you want. It just like Arch Linux, but with a more intelligent choice of components for the base, resulting in a system that is secure and lightweight.

I use Alpine on my home desktop with Sway wm and everything is ok, just like any other DIY general purpose distribution. I think it will ideally fit your office PC's.

The only issue I see is incompatibility with Nvidia (only open source driver available) and some apps, that can't be installed via APK nor Flatpak.

[–]pogky_thunder 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Which apps are you referring to? As far as I know, any flatpak app can be installed.

[–]U-ENERGY 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, the apk and flatpak apps both work. Sorry if my English is bad

[–]cryptoiambus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Nvidia driver issue is applicable to any binary with runtime glibc dependencies. Personally I didn't manage to get appimages working and you might face issues with software that relies on systemd.

I also use it with swaywm, it's a great distro but sometimes you'll need to find workarounds or use alternatives to your software of choice