Installing Alpine Linux with GNOME (yes, I want to move from ubuntu to alpine as my daily driver)
Expectations: several days of debugging by entering contradictory commands and workarounds that make little sense
Reality:
type “setup-desktop”
type “gnome”
wait
type “reboot”

Alpine, what the heck? You’re a server-oriented distro with openrc instead of systemd, your own package manager and musl instead of glibc. Making you a desktop should be a challenge! It’s very unlinuxy of you.

Gnome? You sick fuck 😱

@iiii when you have a big screen, you want big heavy software fluidly rendered, especially if you use a trackpad. Every swipe a deliberate decision. Every two-finger swipe a statement. Every three-finger swipe a painting, a monument to your GPU’s power.
Small efficient wm with no animations feels just right when you’re rocking your 900 gram, 13” thinkpad x1 nano at 7am at local maccas, listening to music, coding and chilling before the city wakes up.
Big screen though? Yeah, give me that fat ass bitch, bring it on motherfucker, my GPU can take it

@kiki it's not about GPU. Gnome was made for tablet PCs and not for the ones with keyboard and mouse

@kiki and she calls me manic :P Anyway, I did use it too for a while as daily driver, but then moved back to ubuntu. I had no idea what problem i was going to solve by changing distro's .

@iiii huh?

@retoor what do you mean what problem
Bloat, ram consumption, systemd