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We all know about Debian, Fedora and Arch but what about the lesser known ones that are built from the ground up?

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[โ€“] TehPers@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Alpine is less obscure now because of containers, but I haven't considered running it as a desktop OS.

I wouldn't personally use it on the desktop. If it ran systemd I'd consider it for servers.