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I've recently switched to using Alpine on my laptop, and have written a bit about setting it up using ansible here:

https://www.brianlane.com/post/alpine-laptop/

And when you can't find the apps you need in the distribution there's always podman:

https://www.brianlane.com/post/prusa-slicer/

Instead of using podman directly, and potentially messing with X11 permissions, you could use x11docker (despite the name, it podman support). It attempts to safely share X11 into a container.

Tried using x11docker in Alpine, didn't work for the Electron apps I tried with it. Tried for several days; finally got the app running in Docker without x11docker.

> safely

vs upstream saying

> Using x11docker as a sandbox is not intended to run obviously evil software.

I ran Alpine on my laptop during the last half of college. It's a great little distro if you don't mind occasionally compiling things.

I've been on Gentoo since 2005. It's a great distro if don't mind compiling everything ;)

I got hazed by an upperclassmen with gentoo around that time and it's ruined me ever since. It's just not Linux if I can't edit a text file and rebuild the world.

Fun fact: Gentoo actually uses Alpine docker containers as a base to build their Docker containers.

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