It’s a nice and clean Linux distro, Alpine is great for being lean and you can get around any portential glibc problems with flatpak/chroots/virtualisation if you don’t mind, also aports (the build system) it’s pretty straightforward. the package repositories are decent and flatpak does the rest I find.
I’ve run it as a general purpose fix-it drive for a long time but it’s good for servers or routers, or decent enough on a laptop/desktop, it’s more of a hands-on approach than most other distros so I’ll find myself on the Gentoo or Arch wikis a bit of the time.
It has it’s quirks like any distro but it’s very nice once you’re used to how it works, it generally avoids complexity. I like it in that regard.
Alpine is great, if you’re not on Nvidia. Been daily driving it on bare metal and gotta say, it’s very nice. Fast package manager, OpenRC, up-to date packages and it has setup scripts for many common components like desktop environments.
Wait so you have that too? I didn’t even know it. I thought the only things themed are the terminal and the desktop. Mister/miss, you definitely put a lot of effort in that one and the result is according. Great job
Yeah, it’s been quite a bit of guess work. Gtk/Kvantum themes are both Nordic-dark, then with the right gtk settings everywhere and compiling a few bits (cursors, Xsettingsd) and installing all the flatpak portals, with the right variables as well as all the Kvantum flatpak runtimes it works consistently across GTK/Qt/XWayland apps, including the cursor.
All my installed packages are also there under doc/apkovl. I installed my cursor/gtk themes to /usr/share as I compiled them but I’m sure they’d work in /home.
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