Alpine Linux has some major advantages over other operating systems.
1. It has the fastest package manager currently available.
2. It has higher security than most operating systems.
3. It has an init system that is about as fast as the s6 init system which is blazing fast.
4. It has ZFS support
5. It now supports a fair amount of apps, window managers and desktop environments.
But it used to have a major problem on all desktop systems and that was screen tearing in X11 environments.
Specifically for Alpine Linux, screen tearing was virtually impossible to solve.
Now, fortunately, you can use Wayland so Alpine Linux is perfectly usable as a desktop system.
In the screenshot I am using River, I have only configured a few keyboard shortcuts but it is functional after only two minutes configuration.
[mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to riverwm/river development by creating an account on GitHub.
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The setup is very basic at the moment. But this window manager works very well on the AMD RX 7600.
