I’m going to replace my host os on my shitty laptop with Linux specifically puppy Linux or alpine Linux from scratch and I need to know how will I get started and make it easier for myself, I use a HP notebook 540
I’m going to replace my host os on my shitty laptop with Linux specifically puppy Linux or alpine Linux from scratch and I need to know how will I get started and make it easier for myself, I use a HP notebook 540
Heck ya to Fedora, glad to see it recommended for a first time user. It’s not much more difficult than Mint, but you can also get into the weeds instead of having to find a new distro after Mint. Mint basically has permanent training wheels, while with Fedora you can pop em off whenever it’s convient.
Edit: Fedora is also a more up to date Alpine and it’s not directly controlled by Red Hat.
https://repology.org/repositories/statistics says that Alpine Edge has a higher percentage of up-to-date packages.
I do agree that a new user should use something like Fedora first. But OP wants Alpine.
But Fedora is upstream of Alpine, right?
Fedora is also Wayland only, which I wouldn’t recommend to a newbie with an old laptop.
The KDE spin has x11, KDE is my go to DE everytime. So assumed that layer I guess.