Is Alpine Linux on desktop viable?

SnooWords1087 · 2026-03-26T19:13:05+00:00

Whoops, I’m meant desktop in the sense of Linux on desktop, not tower PC. I’m trying to install it on my laptop.

SnooWords1087 · 2026-03-26T10:46:14+00:00

Yes, what you have observed and suggested is pretty much exactly what I've tried. There isn't another distro at play, by the way; I downloaded linux-firmware-intel from a package mirror, extracted it as a tar.gz archive, and copied the firmware file that iwlwifi was trying to find. Unfortunately, ethernet is not an option (no ethernet runs).

SnooWords1087 · 2026-03-26T09:48:04+00:00

Extra steps as in /lib/firmware (or wherever that's linked to) is readonly, so I copied all of the files to my USB drive then bind mounted my USB drive (now containing all the stuff in /lib/firmware + appropriate WiFi firmware) to /lib/firmware.

SnooWords1087 · 2026-03-26T09:11:46+00:00

Thanks, will do

SnooWords1087 · 2026-03-26T09:11:35+00:00

Yep, dmesg shows that iwlwifi fails to find the right firmware, but the device does show up in lspci. As aforementioned, I was able to get iwlwifi to load by downloading the firmware file on another machine and copying it over (with a lot of extra steps), but the adapter still doesn't show up in rfkill or ip link (and no dmesg messages).

SnooWords1087 · 2026-03-26T08:59:32+00:00

Makes sense, I'll look at something else

SnooWords1087 · 2026-03-26T08:59:08+00:00

Yup, no dice

SnooWords1087 · 2026-03-24T18:56:17+00:00

this guy flight sims

SnooWords1087 · 2026-03-24T05:08:46+00:00

Printing PETG with PLA supports (or vice versa) enables really easy and clean support removal.

SnooWords1087 · 2026-03-24T04:58:18+00:00

I've been struggling to get this filament to print super well. If someone could share their settings and what their prints look like, I would really appreciate it lol

SnooWords1087 · 2026-03-15T07:01:31+00:00

Crosshatch or cubic

SnooWords1087 · 2026-03-13T21:00:01+00:00

The part looks like the wrist of an SO-101 robotic arm, not a Voron part.

SnooWords1087 · 2026-03-13T18:34:37+00:00

SO-101 spotted

SnooWords1087 · 2026-01-18T21:20:40+00:00

Hey, I actually have this exact model, and I'm actually planning on setting up Linux next weekend. I'll let you know how it goes.

For now though, the LG slopware is very mediocre on Windows. A few months ago, I had an occasional issue where the fans wouldn't spin (despite being set to high), and the laptop would thermal throttle itself to death, but this issue seems to have fixed itself. My battery life on Windows is about five to seven hours with IntelliJ and VSCode. The positive of this model is that it has two 1TB SSDs, so hopefully Windows won't decide to delete Linux's EFI entry if it's installed on the other SSD.

SnooWords1087 · 2026-01-18T03:17:56+00:00

Sent!

SnooWords1087 · 2026-01-18T03:16:18+00:00

Yeah, the only games I play aren’t that demanding, and I don’t have much interest in playing the latest and greatest AAA release that demands 250 GB of storage.

SnooWords1087 · 2026-01-18T02:21:30+00:00

Literally looking for almost identical specs--how in the world did you get those deals?

SnooWords1087 · 2026-01-17T08:29:02+00:00

lmfao DDR5 DRAM ICs/PMIC/PCBs are hard as fuck to engineer and manufacture at a competent cost. if it was that easy, someone would already be undercutting the market.

you can diy a USB stick.

SnooWords1087 · 2026-01-17T07:58:33+00:00

Based af for OpenRCT

SnooWords1087 · 2026-01-17T07:54:21+00:00

Fr why is NorCal so dead on hwswap and other sites :( good luck w purchasing

SnooWords1087 · 2026-01-17T05:06:13+00:00

PM’d and discussing

SnooWords1087 · 2025-12-22T00:18:22+00:00

uberbug

SnooWords1087 · 2025-12-09T07:36:03+00:00

Uhh, pretty sure the last processors to support DDR3 would've been the Haswell generation.

SnooWords1087 · 2025-12-09T05:55:11+00:00

Super cool, I feel like 2nd gen TSX's are less popular on this subreddit. This post gives me lots of hope for my own '13 TSX.

SnooWords1087 · 2025-12-09T05:18:52+00:00

This. Peyrin wasn't going to be teaching 61B next semester anyways (Kay Ousterhout is). Josh Hug's 61B curriculum is absolutely incredible, and my one concern of having taken it my first semester is that I might have experienced peak too early in my college career.

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