Post #3598120

2026-07-05 05:32 UTC

I too would like to know more about this controversies. Some quick web search found me some articles about xlibre rejection as well as preparation for systemd compatibility, none of which should be a big deal. As for myself, I avoid running Alpine for a full-featured desktop system simply for the fact they’re designed for embedded systems. I have in fact tried setting it up for desktop use. What made me end up abandoning it was that I ended up having to get rid of the stuff that make the distro special (i.e. busybox and musl) since even the lightest distro requires udev and all.

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@helix@feddit.org 2026-07-05 05:57

preparation for systemd compatibility, none of which should be a big deal. I mean there are systemd haters questioning anyone daring to do that…

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@communism@lemmy.ml 2026-07-05 10:34

preparation for systemd compatibility To be clear, they’re not switching to systemd; they’re just reportedly (I can’t find primary sources on this, only secondary) working on compatibility with programs that expect systemd to be there.

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@confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-05 15:41

I use Alpine as my desktop daily driver. The setup-desktop [link] and setup-devd [link] scripts that come with Alpine are convenient for setting up a desktop environment. There still is some extra work to get things working but the wiki has a good tutorial page which is a good start for setting up a desktop environment on Alpine. I do think Alpine is quite flexible beyond embedded systems. That’s a lot of effort to include desktop environments in their OS or even in major version release notes.

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