[apignotti]

The disk blocks are streamed on demand, so a connection is required.

The virtual disk is quite large (1.5GB) which is necessary to run a full distro but makes pre-downloading for offline mode not possible.

It _could_ work if you let your workload run once and then disconnect, but there is no guarantee.

Installing packages is supported both in the Debian terminal and Alpine desktop.

[modeless]

It is certainly possible to download and store 1.5 GB in browsers these days.