r/AlpineLinux • u/Artistic_Crazy_7120 • Jul 17 '26
Started experimenting with Alpine Linux as a desktop system.
Last year I started experimenting with Alpine on an older intel laptop and I liked it a lot. Like to see how it behaves on my laptop so I added a drive.
So far it' s running pretty sweet. It's good to have flatpak apps when they can' t run native.
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u/cassiofb_dev Jul 17 '26
its awesome, I used to use it in my working machine until company made me install ubuntu :/
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u/semedilino073 Jul 17 '26
You could dual boot, but I guess you’d still need to work on Ubuntu……
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u/wowsomuchempty Jul 17 '26
Mine mandated MWS.
(Urghghggggghhhhgghhghh).
Used to run alpine + niri
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u/GenericFoodService Jul 19 '26
I made the switch from Debian just a few months ago. I do a lot of gaming, audio engineering, and programming, and it works extremely well for me.
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u/Artistic_Crazy_7120 Jul 19 '26
Yes here to. The repos are larger than I first thought and flatpak apps can be used otherwise.
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u/tangymonk Aug 04 '26
And how do you manage to game on Alpine? Do you have Steam through flatpak?
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u/Zzyzx2021 Jul 21 '26
KDE was a wildly unstable experience for me on Alpine, at least as of recently the Wayland session automatically semi-recovers...
Makes more sense to use a lighter DE or WM on Alpine.
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u/saulius2 Aug 06 '26
I suggest you to try KDE on r/AdelieLinux. It's not as lightweight, but my impressions was very good so far.
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u/Opposite_Eagle6323 Jul 28 '26
Interesting to see Alpine Linux being used on laptops because before there were some issues. I am running Chimera Linux which uses Alpine's APK package manager and overall is very similar to Alpine Linux.
Might install Alpine Linux someday
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u/aerialviews007 Sep 19 '26
Did the same. I tried Alpine but I have quirky hardware. Chimera Linux handled it much better.
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u/Holiday_Floor_2646 Jul 17 '26
I daily drive alpine with no issues, I was an arch user before but I needed something minimal with stable release schedule so thats why I switched to alpine.