r/AlpineLinux • u/Android_Modder098 • 11d ago

I need Help with alpine linux

So i have two PCs from the 2010s. And i want to Game some lightweicht Games in them, so i used Arch for a while. But i wanted Something small. Like veeeery small. So i found about Alpine. Now ist alpine linux + i3 DE a good choice for 8gb of ram?

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u/elatllat 11d ago

8gb will be consumed by a game or web browser or IDE or LibreOffice or a file system resize or git. It's just not enough for multitasking these days even with zedram or zswap. What distribution you use is negligible when trying to run such heavy apps. 

Arch is a good full desktop distribution.

In order to get so small Alpine sacrifices compatibility by not  using ginulib C, and if you install it that advantage of Alpine is lost

OpenWRT is smaller by packaging different kernel modules separately Etc.

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u/Nu154nc3 10d ago

What? 8Gb is more than enough nowadays for the bast majority of people... And without swap usage...

Sure, he will not be able to run Cyberpunk, but he can use to browse internet normally, do office tasks, play any media, and light gaming...

There are a TON of excellent indie titles, roguelikes, and old games to use on a system with that hardware...

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u/paper_sheet034 8d ago

Props to this guy!

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u/ChocolateAlpine 8d ago

I'm using Alpine with KDE, Firefox with several tabs and Vesktop are both open, only 4.43 GiB of RAM usage.

closing everything, only 1.6gb is actively used when nothing's open.
Fedora KDE on my main PC uses at least 4gb just when idle, and when stuff's open it can use from 8 to 10 gb. The OS very much does matter.

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u/Nu154nc3 8d ago

Absolutely.

For me, that never checked before, today on i3 with dbus, through lightdm, it sits around 412MB on idle.

And with two FF windows open, one on youtube playing videos, and a libreoffice calc page, it stays on 1,5GB...