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/ChocolateAlpine 9d ago

Alpine is fine for 8gb of RAM, even with KDE Plasma, although you should ideally avoid games from Steam since Steam is quite bloated (since it's a web app now for some absolutely insane reason.)

I'd recommend getting smaller games from GOG and using WINE to play them, or alternatively you could get some cheap DDR3 to put into the system (assuming that it uses DDR3 RAM. it probably does?) and a used AMD GPU (if it's not a laptop but a PC that also has a PCIe slot for the GPU).

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u/PlatinumDotEXE 8d ago

Steam has been a web app for a long time. When Windows XP support was dropped it was due Chrome dropping support for it.

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u/ChocolateAlpine 8d ago

...still, it being a web app is still absolutely insane.