I did this in virtual box as well. I can't remember if it's kde or xfce. Need to circle back and play with it a bit more. Had alpine originally to get a feel for the OS to build Docker images. - ThreadSky

heavilybauxite.bsky.social • 1 day ago

I did this in virtual box as well. I can't remember if it's kde or xfce. Need to circle back and play with it a bit more. Had alpine originally to get a feel for the OS to build Docker images.

Reposted from Christine Hall

"Everybody knows that Alpine Linux is a great base OS for containers and IoT devices, and works great for running servers in data centers. We decided to see how well it performs on a desktop:" Alpine Linux 3.22.0: Not Just for Servers, Containers, and IoT - FOSS Force

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smalladventures.net•1 day ago

I would be disappointed if a distro aiming for being slim and light used KDE. KDE is great but it's definitely not that.

heavilybauxite.bsky.social•1 day ago

I only did it to see if it would even install a DE after finding the command. I planned on blowing it away after playing with doas, apt, and installing browsers to see about a container for QA and cypress testing

heavilybauxite.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, I'll try to look tomorrow as its a VM on my work PC. I'm not too familiar with desktop environments as I came from servers, so probably just "stick with what you know" lol. I run mate on mint and KDE on arch. Probably switch all to XFCE eventually. But Linux doesn't care if you want a heavy de

smalladventures.net•1 day ago

I decided on my WM/DE style ~2005 when KDE and Gnome were huge hogs that needed a high-end desktop to feel snappy.

I think they got a little slower since then, but machines got much much faster. I got used to the super minimalist thing though so still do it anyway.

heavilybauxite.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ubuntu/Unity killed gnome for me. When they tried going full mac replica. KDE looks great, and has a lot of packages. But it also has a lot of packages lmao. I haven't had time to play with XFCE to customize it the way I want, and don't have time for a hyprland configuration, so... lol

nexussapphire.bsky.social•1 day ago

You can always uninstall apps you don't use. 😁 Don't worry about pushy people.

I don't like how gnome works either. I would rather be able to minimize windows or tile them. (Not snapping windows)

Gnomes annoyingly forces their design on you and gives you little option as a user to fix it.

heavilybauxite.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, I'm too lazy to go through apps to see what I use and what I don't use. I think that's the allure of arch is that you get only what you want besides what comes with a DE. I think I'm going to try to go headless instead of tinkering too much with my DE as my next venture.

nexussapphire.bsky.social•1 day ago

They both run fine on my base model surface pro from 2013.

Gnome is a bit laggy when doing all of its animations & search but the chunky interface works great with touch.

Plasmas mouse first interface sucks for touchscreens but it's far smoother & snappier.

They're both ok on slow hardware.

heavilybauxite.bsky.social•1 day ago

I bought a surface pro 3 for my daughter off for $75 with Ubuntu pre-loaded. It works great for her. I bought her some python books for kids as she says she wants to learn to code. But Ubuntu out of the box works extremely well with the touch screen. I've just left it as is for web her web browsing

nexussapphire.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's awesome! I took a netbook that was borderline e-waste, themed to be cute, and loaded it up with interactive/learning programs.

Apparently my niece is still too young for a computer because she broke the screen and lost interest because the touchscreens stopped working.

heavilybauxite.bsky.social•1 day ago

ha ha, sounds about right. My daughter says she wants to code, so we bought the python for kids books. There were like 3 for $8. So wasn't much money. But she's not cracked them open yet.

nexussapphire.bsky.social•1 day ago

Basically who cares because even xfce shits the bed the moment you open a modern web browser.

What's truly slim & light is a window manager with the bare minimum needed to do your work like sway.

smalladventures.net•1 day ago

I'm a sway user actually, awesome before that, fvwm before that.

Web browsers are a problem. I'm using librewolf. Back in the day I used w3m which was excellent, but then the web got too much javascript for that to work anymore.

I'm working on dropping thunderbird, which I use for the calendar.

nexussapphire.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was hyprland until I upgraded my computer.

My arch install was filled with years of fixes for my Nvidia card. So I did a fresh install of fedora when I switched to amd.

I just wanted to get back to work and plasma was easier. My mother loves gnome because it's different from windows and pretty.

nexussapphire.bsky.social•1 day ago

Honestly would have never switched to Linux if it wasn't for Wayland. I'm allergic to screen tearing & jank which x11 had plenty of.

My Nvidia card actually worked on arch Linux at the time. Gnome & hyprland had the best Wayland support for Nvidia back then too. Basically I started on arch Linux.🤣

johnspikowski.com•1 day ago

Ubuntu is the gold standard everyone uses as a base, including Debian.

heavilybauxite.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was using Ubuntu and even Debian slim, but having powershell, python, chrome, edge, and Firefox bloted the images to 2.5-3gb and wanted this to be ephemeral which meant downloading ~3gb each time which is less than ideal. So was trying to shrink image size.
1/2

heavilybauxite.bsky.social•1 day ago

2/2 The QA department needed the browsers for their Cypress testing, so had to have them. For time being i was trying to maintain one image as a POC, and then separate images later. Maybe lol

johnspikowski.com•1 day ago

I took the portable Ubuntu server approach offering key web developer services. With Samba it looks like a Windows server on the local network.

https://OrangePiZero.com

heavilybauxite.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, that picture is the reason I followed you. All of my team's Linux VMs are Ubuntu

johnspikowski.com•1 day ago

It's a great was to rid yourself of Microsoft's middleware monetization.

heavilybauxite.bsky.social•1 day ago

Full agree. I have a win11 partition that I never boot into. But have mint on 2/3rds of my devices. Replaced rhino with arch recently on the 3rd. Work forces us to use windows though.

johnspikowski.com•1 day ago

I wish Microsoft would have done for Visual BASIC classic what they did with Visual Studio Code by making it open source rather than trying to kill it. VB6 with enhancements like VBCCR keeps the language alive. ScriptBasic has a sweet interface to VB6 / COM.

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