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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Alpine linux has plenty of cases

pretty good for servers

a fast package manager

...which are easily surpassed by (pretty much any distro). And idk why you highlighted those like its a some sort of "deal breaker" for whoever wants a stable/reliable distro -- even a potato (486 and down) can run apt (which is terribly slow compared to any other package manager) incredibly fast nowadays. If those are (still) issues that are considered to be critical by you.... then eh, I'm afraid to say that it's a (You) problem. :^)

bro

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