They’re BSD after all.

Thanks for saving us the trip!

You’re asking too much here. I mean, just look at who’s in charge.

The other left-wing: “don’t bring us into your bullshit”

So that’s why my system was suddenly pulling a hundred something packages when I randomly check for update.

Good one.

While old packages do ruin experiences, stuff changing too rapidly can as well.

Arch as well as OpenSUSE Tumbleweed a good example at this.

There’s no free lunch. These people said it themselves.

Right, whatever you say, old man.

So hey, about the Epstein files…

Damn, I wish I have that level of dedication toward something.

They’re still going at it??

While I’m aware that it’s completely feasible and even practical to setup desktop on alpine, what drove me away was the fact we’d be ditching musl & busybox for more full-featured solutions anyway.

Continuous innovation? What a joke.

The systemd units are easier to create and maintain compared to the init scripts. The systemd itself can also be used as a one stop solution for cron, hostname, ntp client, dns resolver, tmpfile manager, even bootloader, and many more.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d use OpenRC where I can, but I totally see why systemd is popular.

As for the XLibre, I’ve never used it myself since I’d be upgrading to Wayland instead. My legacy systems remain on X11. I’ve read it’s quige buggy tho. At the same time, there are a lot of fanatics who are making this a big deal out of proportion.

Really? I have one open right now on my desktop, and I cannot seem to find it.

AFAIK, they’re not switching to systemd in the first place, at least for its base system. PostmarketOS is tho, and I can see why they’d want to facilitate that.

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.

I heard some cordless power tools could come handy.

Usually one would wait til their product take over the market before enshitifying it. For this one, they don’t even have a feasible market. Who am I to judge tho.

Well, not me, but some people do.

Yes?