• @fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
    5•1 month ago

    Looks sick! Nord imo seems to be too low contrast. But maybe that’s just my shitty vision

      • @3w0OP
        1•1 month ago

        I’ve been stuck to it for years, used to it at this point!

  • trevorEnglish
    3•1 month ago

    I don’t see many people running Alpine on bare metal. It’s usually in containers.

    How do you like it? I’ve been curious about trying, but haven’t found the time.

    • Presi300English
      2•1 month ago

      Alpine is great, if you’re not on Nvidia. Been daily driving it on bare metal and gotta say, it’s very nice. Fast package manager, OpenRC, up-to date packages and it has setup scripts for many common components like desktop environments.

    • @3w0OP
      1•1 month ago

      It’s a nice and clean Linux distro, Alpine is great for being lean and you can get around any portential glibc problems with flatpak/chroots/virtualisation if you don’t mind, also aports (the build system) it’s pretty straightforward. the package repositories are decent and flatpak does the rest I find.

      I’ve run it as a general purpose fix-it drive for a long time but it’s good for servers or routers, or decent enough on a laptop/desktop, it’s more of a hands-on approach than most other distros so I’ll find myself on the Gentoo or Arch wikis a bit of the time.

      It has it’s quirks like any distro but it’s very nice once you’re used to how it works, it generally avoids complexity. I like it in that regard.

    • @3w0OP
      1•1 month ago

      It’s nice, low effort now it’s setup! Just messing around with firewalling :)

      • Presi300English
        1•1 month ago

        Is fast & small and just works… what’s there not to like

    • @3w0OP
      3•1 month ago

      Nope, I usually pay the Mullvad tax.

    • @3w0OP
      2•1 month ago

      Thanks yep it was a btt of a pain getting uniform theming up between GTK, Kvantum and Xsettingsd it seems to work nice :)

      • @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
        4•1 month ago

        Wait so you have that too? I didn’t even know it. I thought the only things themed are the terminal and the desktop. Mister/miss, you definitely put a lot of effort in that one and the result is according. Great job

        • @3w0OP
          4•1 month ago

          Yeah, it’s been quite a bit of guess work. Gtk/Kvantum themes are both Nordic-dark, then with the right gtk settings everywhere and compiling a few bits (cursors, Xsettingsd) and installing all the flatpak portals, with the right variables as well as all the Kvantum flatpak runtimes it works consistently across GTK/Qt/XWayland apps, including the cursor.

          All my installed packages are also there under doc/apkovl. I installed my cursor/gtk themes to /usr/share as I compiled them but I’m sure they’d work in /home.