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[Sway] Purple tiles

I prefer function over form so everything is rectangular and there are no gaps or rounded edges.

I may post dotfiles once I organize them, which is literally never, so if you have a specific question just ask.

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  • How do you handle lack of systemd? Do you use elogind or seatd? Do you package some things yourself considering Alpine isn't popular as a desktop distribution?

    • I only ever used systemd for services and did not use any of the other features. Openrc does that and it works so nothing to handle.

      I use seatd and I do not use polkit. The only thing that caught me off guard was that the default login binary does not support PAM so I had to install shadow-login.

      I do use flatpak for lutris, web browser and few other things, but I prefer native packages. If the package isn't in the repos I package it myself, the package format is almost identical to the one Arch has so a lot of times its enough to just edit the dependencies and build.

      • Thank you for indulging me! I tried Alpine for a moment with Sway but it was really bare and I had some issues with setting up seatd and/or elogind to ensure some usual niceties like auto-mounting of usb drives etc. I was curious how is daily-driving it experienced by others.

  • How do you find Alpine? Was it as easy as Arch to set up post install? Do you have any complaints related to it, especially on the Wayland and tiling front?

    • I have no complaints about the OS itself and I really like the package manager. The wiki is lacking tho, which is not an issue 99% of the time cause I can still check archwiki, but its something to keep in mind.

      Post-install was similar to Arch and fairly straightforward, except for having to set up logind

      As far as wayland goes it works the same as on any other distro, nothing Alpine specific that you should look out for.

  • Dummy question, but how did you take that screenshot? Can't get Flameshot to work..

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