[vmoore]

Does anyone know where there are screenshots of this on the website? I like to see how a desktop looks before I try a new distro. Seems absent on the site

[dougbarrett]

From what I understand of alpine, it's commonly used for Docker images to provide a lightweight distro for your apps vs using something like ubuntu or debian which may include more than what's required.

I don't believe it's intended to be used in a desktop environment, but I could be wrong.

[Seirdy]

This is false; you can install a variety of DEs from the repos.

[dougbarrett]

Got it. Thanks for correcting me!

[samgranieri]

Yes, it's defintely used for Dockerizing apps. I've Dockerized several Ruby, Node and Elixir apps using Alpine at work.

[miggol]

Alpine is more of a command-line distro. It's compact design and lack of many dependencies make it ideal for virtual servers and containers. Personally I've been eyeing it for an install on a small ARM board as a music streaming server, which it seems quite suitable for. In this case I would still connect to it over the network, still with no GUI or desktop.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Alpine is a bare bones / DIY distro (like Arch); it'll look like whatever DE you install.

[bluedays]

You can install any Desktop Environment you want.

[hulitu]

You can do that in any distro. I think the OP refers to the fact that, usually the distro supplies some default config files for the DE which makes it look distro specific.

[zinekeller]

... except that it's command-line by default, so the DEs has whatever Gnome/KDE decided them to look (rather than adding wallpapers and such).