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Having built several Alpine and Debian-based images, Alpine has always been very nice for the happy path, but much more hassle to get out of a hole when something broke due to software misbehaving due non-Alpine assumptions.

Debian in Docker in comparison offer less surprises, but you have to consistently do the right incantations.

Regarding missing binary wheels on ARM: with more ARM laptops in the wild those would eventually become more common.