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Alpine as a desktop OS (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This might be the dumbest stuff anyone has asked here, but has anyone tried running Alpine as a desktop base OS? Seems pretty well stocked when it comes to the repo, and it's light asf.

Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its possible to install glibc on Alpine. https://hatchjs.com/alpine-linux-install-full-glibc/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is fake https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=glibc*&branch=edge&repo=&arch=&maintainer= I have felt for it too, but glibc-full doesn't exist I have found a package on github though, that claims to add glibc, but whenever I tried to use it to, for example, run the nvidia installer, the entire thing just segfaults

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry for the bad link, I will be more careful for the next time.

In the official website, the glibc page was updated with a new glibc layer. You can also check if you have "nouveau" drivers for Nvidia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Nouveau sadly doesn't work for me, it's abysmally bad performance even on X11

And the new compat layer is new for me, might give it a try