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They pursue a non-Unix way though: an immutable distro, ideally only running systemd and podman in the userland, put everything into containers.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code from Its Base System"}, {"id": 779731361, "item_id": 48733210, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733210", "by": "yjftsjthsd-h", "date": "2026-06-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I do remember having more problems there because of musl", "excerpt": "IIRC Alpine was originally built largely for embedded networking gear, then because of its small size came to be favored in container images (where smaller images are a selling point), but it's a general purpose distro and I've had a good time daily-driving it on laptops. If apps/musl are a problem you can just install flatpak, but off the top of my head I've only needed that for Steam and non-firefox browsers (but `", "context": "", "use_case": "daily-driver laptop OS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian"}, {"id": 776303841, "item_id": 48518990, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518990", "by": "hakfoo", "date": "2026-06-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I had a V33, and I use Void.", "excerpt": "On the one hand, it's nice that Epson provided a Linux package. On the other, it's a pain in the arse that it's specific to a handful of distributions. I had a V33, and I use Void. At one point I was able to get it shimmed together, there was a wrapper package for the vendor-specific modules, but eventually it stopped working, so I went to the Goodwill and came home with a Canon LIDE 100 that Just Worked with SANE. I", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Using the Epson Perfection V39 II Scanner on Ubuntu"}, {"id": 775498193, "item_id": 48468637, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468637", "by": "proxysna", "date": "2026-06-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "except desktop (I use Void btw)", "excerpt": "Alpine is my go-to nowadays for everything in my homelab except desktop (I use Void btw), because of how dirty the setup to make GPU's work with musl kernel.", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released"}, {"id": 764234896, "item_id": 47764681, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764681", "by": "boltzmann64", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "if you want a stable chimera linux as a daily driver, go to voidlinux.org.", "excerpt": "if you want a stable chimera linux as a daily driver, go to voidlinux.org. chimera linux started as a void linux fork until it became it's own thing. they share the same dna. cbuild started as a xbps-src fork.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily driver", "switched_from": "", "story": "Just Enough Chimera Linux"}, {"id": 748735331, "item_id": 46795958, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795958", "by": "Bender", "date": "2026-01-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "All the other daily stuff works great on MX/Void", "excerpt": "Those that love it will fight for it. Those that hate it will simply avoid using it. There may be some commercial incentives for IBM/Redhat to push for it. Either way it will always be divisive. Some sysadmins will begrudgingly support it at work and some absolutely love to support it. I have supported it in the enterprise and I use it on gaming machines at home. (CachyOS / Bazzite). My daily drivers, servers both ph", "context": "enterprise sysadmin", "use_case": "daily driver", "switched_from": "", "story": "Devuan \u2013 Debian Without Systemd"}, {"id": 745201696, "item_id": 46575106, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46575106", "by": "onli", "date": "2026-01-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Void is fast and ridiculously stable, even more so given it's a rolling release distro", "excerpt": "The article mentions that the author had a negative experience with Void Linux, that it was missing programs in its repository. If you considered it, give it a try anyway. Void is fast and ridiculously stable, even more so given it's a rolling release distro (so often has very new program versions). And in contrast to the author, I was impressed with the broad range of the package system - he might have had a bit of ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"}, {"id": 732727108, "item_id": 45795444, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45795444", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2025-11-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I prefer things like alpine/void", "excerpt": "My thoughts on systemd are complicated but I wasn't around at the time of systemd Personally it is my opinion that Linux really split in two due to systemd partially because of the idea of the sheer size of systemd code There are things like https://github.com/Sweets/hummingbird which, I, not even a C person can understand and appreciate its simplicity. I am not saying that we always need such simplicity, but that I ", "context": "", "use_case": "musl-based distro", "switched_from": "", "story": null}]}