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I want to like Alpine because it's so light, but realistically you can only ever use it in Docker / VMs or for very specific locked-down needs. The musl libc makes it a bad choice for general purpose desktop use (look at the number of hacks required to get some version of VSCode running on it for example).
Another "I want to love Alpine but can't" user here. Their use of musl libc makes it a very poor choice for running python in a container, because it forces a lot of manual rebuilding since the PyPi wheels don't work on Alpine, among other issues [1] [1] https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/
Another "I want to love Alpine but can't" user here. Their use of musl libc makes it a very poor choice for running python in a container, because it forces a lot of manual rebuilding since the PyPi wheels don't work on Alpine, among other issues [1] [1] https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/
Another "I want to love Alpine but can't" user here. Their use of musl libc makes it a very poor choice for running python in a container, because it forces a lot of manual rebuilding since the PyPi wheels don't work on Alpine, among other issues [1] [1] https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/
So just use the glibc compat layer, or also install glibc. https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Running_glibc_programs
I want to like Alpine because it's so light, but realistically you can only ever use it in Docker / VMs or for very specific locked-down needs. The musl libc makes it a bad choice for general purpose desktop use (look at the number of hacks required to get some version of VSCode running on it for example).
No big issues so far and I am in the process of migrating my home server to Alpine.
I would love for Alpine to progress to the point where it's a realistic desktop or server OS, rather than the OS for the containers that run on an Ubuntu or Debian server. Edit: Just got inspired and went to the contributing page. Think I'll start using it to develop with Vim in a VM locally and see where things go from there.
Another "I want to love Alpine but can't" user here. Their use of musl libc makes it a very poor choice for running python in a container, because it forces a lot of manual rebuilding since the PyPi wheels don't work on Alpine, among other issues [1] [1] https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/
I would love for Alpine to progress to the point where it's a realistic desktop or server OS, rather than the OS for the containers that run on an Ubuntu or Debian server. Edit: Just got inspired and went to the contributing page. Think I'll start using it to develop with Vim in a VM locally and see where things go from there.
What is it missing that makes you feel it is unrealistic?
It's not an option for which OS to flash onto my DigitalOcean VM. Getting it going on Raspberry Pi is largely undocumented.
For desktop, it doesn't (officially) support many window managers or desktops.