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  • bbbhltz@beehaw.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Alpine as a desktop OS
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    1 day ago

    I did this for several months. If you check out the Alpine community you’ll see that many people do this. So, it is not a dumb idea. Alpine is a “generalist” distro and comes packed with all the DEs and WMs you want. They also accept package requests and are usually pretty fast about it.

    I would recommend using the Edge branch just to have access to the newest packages, but keep an eye on the issue tracker before hitting update. Also, get on their Matrix and other accounts to follow different discussions.

  • bbbhltz@beehaw.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What Linux distro surprised you the most?
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    9 days ago

    Many have surprised me for different reasons.

    The most recent that did is Alpine. I decided for some reason to install it for regular desktop use on an RPI400.

    First surprise, the ISO was so small. Second surprise, everything installed so fast when I used the install scripts. Third surprise was the up-to-date repos. The final surprise was the community: it handled noob questions and complicated questions so well, walked users through click by click and one command at a time. Awesome and totally an acceptable option for a desktop which is why I immediately installed it on my main laptop and used it for a number of months.

  • bbbhltz@beehaw.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What are the applications that I can remove from Mint? + Mini Rant.
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    2 months ago

    I’ve been using Linux for a long time. When I install my fist step is to uninstall. I get not wanting things taking up space.

    You should be able to remove things like LibreOffice and so on without any issues.

    In the past, dependency chains screwed things up depending on the distro. (Remove Chrome? Oh, well, we’ll remove your DE too! I remember once uninstalling VLC, which I never use, wanted to uninstall the browser and other media apps…)

    I did go and look around, and you are right. Lots of posts, older and more recent, telling people not to uninstall and change to a minimal distro.