Six Months on Alpine: The Musl Trade-off
2025-09-04
The author spent six months using Alpine Linux as their daily driver. Alpine is praised for its speed, excellent package management, and lightweight nature. However, the author encountered compatibility issues due to Alpine's use of the musl libc instead of glibc, particularly with experimental software requiring glibc. While workarounds like gcompat, self-compilation, or Flatpak exist, they add friction. Ultimately, the author decided to explore other distributions like Void Linux or Debian for better compatibility and stability.
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