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Longtime Debian user, looking to branch out.
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Alpine Linux is often recommended in similar circumstances. I've never tried it so can't say how it is. Of course you could use Debian with a light WM.
Alpine is fucking bae. I love that little distro so goddamned much.
I have some experience with Alpine, usually in the form of images for CI pipelines and other remote usecases. It never occurred to me to check it out as a locally installed option.
I don't see the point of it as a locally installed option. Why save disk space?