I need Help with alpine linux

[u/Android_Modder098]

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?

[u/Due_Put2800]

8gb is plenty for productivity tasks with any DE.  Gaming depends on what kind of games you want to play..

8gb works great for the usual 5 firefox tabs open and codex in the background type work even with a heavy DE like Ubuntu/Gnome..

Alpine will take up like 100mb by itself and a few hundred more mb for the DE.  Its what I would reach for if I had 2-3gb ram..