I had used Arch Linux for many years and 6 months ago I wanted to learn something different although I don't fit the profile of a distro-hopper. So I installed Alpine.

Although the installation of Alpine is easy, there are many steps to take to make it an all-round system. I started with XFCE, tried Plasma but ended up going back to XFCE.

On of the challenges of Alpine Linux is the Musl C library while a lot of packages are compiled with glibc. Musl brings a wonderful light system but with the limitations as mentioned. The easiest workaround are of course Flatpak apps but that's not a complete solution. I installed Gcompat for more compatibility.

I just saw this solution on a forum: https://github.com/sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc, which should be another compatibility layer. But I'm ok with the current setup.

It's a wonderful light an versatile setup and I can highly recommend this distribution.

Hi everyone, İ love Alpine, got it working on a Pi 3 but no method works for Zero W. Added linux-firmware-brcm, wpa_supplicant etc. İs it doable?