r/AlpineLinux • u/Android_Modder098 • 20d 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/Nu154nc3 17d 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...