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Alpine. The Linux, not GNU/Linux joke aside, Alpine's kinda great. Light, fast, stable, great package manager. I've daily driven it on both a server and as my main distro and it's pretty nice for both... Unless you're on Nvidia.
My first intro to it was with postmarketOS, and I have to say it felt super light and stable
Huh, I'd never actually considered that Alpine Linux existed as something other than a base for docker containers.
Yeah, that's many people's impression of it.
Want there a post I saw just the other day about Nvidia starting to make open source releases with one of the upcoming driver updates? I just saw it yesterday and didn't even think I checked it out yet but it's somewhere here on my "look at better later" lists here.
It would be fine then if that was true.
Just the kernel module, which still interacts with the proprietary driver.
Well there goes that good news. I hadn't finished looking into it, it's still in a tab I stashed here somewhere.