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two popular choices for the container lifestyle are Debian Stable and Alpine (to the point it’s almost sacrilegious to run Alpine on the desktop)
Good choices, thanks :)
Alpine looks insane, with those low storage requirements. I need to try it out and see how I get on with the package manager though.
I use Alpine with Gnome 45. Works excellent for browsing web.
The package manager for Alpine is...so fast. The community (IRC/Gitlab) is responsive and helpful.
Alpine is great on the desktop too! I use it on all my desktops, laptops and servers.