@rl_dane
gotta weigh in with my new best friend: alpine's apk - super speeeeeed

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How desktop-daily-driveable is alpine?

@rl_dane

Been using it on my laptop for a few weeks and it's been great. Switched my PC to it last week.

It's a minimal distro though, so don't expect to just install a desktop environment and be done, you may have to do some work. (KDE and Gnome may do a lot of it for you though)
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@paul

KDE and Gnome are for chumps anyway :p

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@sotolf

Absolutely right!

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Hey now, KDE is great for an office environment and folks who aren't computer nerds.

Gnome can go smoke its own butt, I guess.
Ok, ok, I guess you can use Gnome to get iPad kids onto linux, but euuuuuurgghhhhhhhh!
So many terrible UI design decisions and terrible officious attitudes in one project.

@rl_dane
Last time I used gnome was gnome 2... that was decent.
Gnome 3 onwards can go do one.
KDE is reasonable I guess, just farrrr too "Windows"-y for my liking. At least it does have every-setting-you-could-possibly-ever-want in the settings though.

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I really liked Gnome 2.

I've tried both Gnome 2 (Ubuntu 10.04, I think) and modern Mate side by side in vms, and I actually preferred Gnome 2. The theme was a bit more contrasty.

Heck, I miss RH's old #BlueCurve

@rl_dane
I think you can get themes for maté as well :0

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