Now just stop using Chrome and you’ll be golden
Haha 😄 yea i use Firefox mostly but I have chrome for school stuff and it loads yt a lot faster
Recommend using Vivaldi if you need something chromium. Has the best god damn tab management I’ve ever tried at least.
I would recommend using librewolf thorium for normal task and if the site doesnt work with it i use thorium. Librewolf is slower than thorium but it is for me the better default version of Firefox. Loading yt is really slow with librewolf so I use freetube or invidious to watch content.
I’m curious: What made you choose Alpine specifically and what were you using before?
I mainly chose Alpine because of my horrible hardware, I only have 4gb of ram and a Haswell Celeron so I wanted something really light while still being usable. As for what I was using before it was Debian but I have jumped around a lot, Arch, Debian, Fedora, Mint, FreeBSD, etc.
Wait, Alpine as a daily driver? How is it treating you? Any apparent differences?
How much of time did you spend on your setup? Love it BTW.
Treating me very well so far, very lightweight since it’s not using gnu coreutils or systemd. As for the setup they have a very well-put-together installer script just boot, log into root, type setup-alpine and follow the steps on screen, I think they also have a setup script for a bunch of desktop environments but I chose to install mine manually, although this was still very easy because of the surprisingly good documentation especially the wiki with many entries explaining step by step how to install different desktop environments, this combined with the verrryyy fast package manager makes for a great experience even on the desktop. :)
Thanks! Did you get sound working? Was pipewire part of the setup whilst installing Gnome?
I’m planning to use Void for my desktop and Alpine for my servers. Thanks!
Yes sound is working perfectly once you install pipewire you just add /usr/libexec/pipewire-launcher to your auto start for whatever de or wm you are using
Pretty good distro, tbh. Should be a pleasant experience if you don’t hesitate to dig into packaging software or use flatpak occasionally: I’ve used it for a short while, but switched due to quite small number of packages in the repos.
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