Alpine works great for the desktop and I’m using it myself for my lower end machine.

Working without glibc and with some strangly named packages is sometimes tricky, but so far I have been able to do anything I’d wanted!

If it can help you in your journey, here is my personal configuration for Alpine, with WMs and DEs on their own branches. Only the ‘suckless’ (DWM) and ‘xfce’ are working properly so far: https://gitlab.com/sunoc/als/-/tree/suckless?ref_type=heads

Kurwa

Better UI consistency. It’s always really annoying when you have your nice dark theme and a bright white page pops out of nowhere and fry your eyes.

For ease on the eye, keep everything black on white, and turn down screen brightness if the environment is dark.

I beg to slightly differ, but it’s a good take overall:

• Aeon Desktop or Fedora Silverblue, any sane immutable system, really
• Zig + Rust + Scheme / Clojure
• systemd,
• wayland,
• pipewire,
• gtk,
• Gnome,
• nano / gedit / whatever y’all are using instead of glorious Emacs
• flatpak,
• distrobox
• light mode

>:3 rawr

Aeon Desktops it is

Aeon FTW

Strangest political compas

Aeon is the way

More like skill issues

Always love to see article of non programmer people using Linux or Emacs!

pfetch anyone ?

Take a look at that snout!

Now we’re talking!

• Trisquel
• Guix
• Parabola
• Hyperbola

Welcome to the community!

Seconding all the previous comments recommending Linux Mint: since you come from Windows, you’ll probably feel most at home there. It is also possible to do all common tasks without ever opening the terminal.

Mint should run fine on any hardware, but to be most safe, try to use something that is at least 1-2 years old and stay clear from dedicated GPU as first (in particular Nvidia).

I’d also advise that the packaging situation for distributing software in Linux rn is somewhat messy. Thankfully, multiple format (apt, Flatpak) are directly available in the Linux Mint Software Center. In case you need to use some proprietary software (Chrome, Spotify, idk), you’d probably want to go with Flatpaks.