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I had contact with Alpine on one server. It's great OS but I don't think it's great choice not for desktop. I'm using Gentoo and it gives me much more capabilities ;) Gentoo can't work with busybox as GNU coreutils are hard dependency. musl is supported by Gentoo but as I heard there's a lot of issues with it
I guess it's just that musl and busybox are not fit for desktop use cases
yeah, they're better for embedded devices