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Void users, what do you especially like about your distro?
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While I'm aware that it's completely feasible and even practical to setup desktop on alpine, what drove me away was the fact we'd be ditching musl & busybox for more full-featured solutions anyway.
I often see claims that Alpine linux is just for embedded systems. I wanted to highlight to other people that there is far more to Alpine than embedded systems or being used for containers.
It's mininal like void but still very flexible and capable if people are willing to work with Musl, BusyBox or OpenRC. It's a nice option for anyone who has issues with SystemD or may want to depend less on GNU tools.
Like any distribution, it doesn't fill everyone's wants or needs but it seems to have grown more than serving just embedded systems.