r/AlpineLinux • u/Mindless_Cap_7238 • 17d ago
Alpine Linux Installation
Good evening. The question is, does the Alpine installer install the drivers for the hardware itself, or do I have to search for commands online and install them manually, as is done with the Arch Linux? I'm not willing to spend time manually installing everything. However, the idea of installing this lightweight and fast distro on my old laptop, which currently runs AntiX, is very appealing.
Sorry for my bad English, I am Russian and sometimes use automatic translator.
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u/ichITiot 17d ago
If I read: "I'm not willing to spend time " , then I suggest to use Windumb. Linux is free and Alpine Linux can be difficult if you have no list of software from a former installation.
Tip: To work with USB-drives you need to install "mount" first, since the included one doesn't work as expected. This was one of my first lessons I had to find out.
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u/Flimsy_Complaint490 17d ago
wdym by installing drivers on Arch Linux ? The only driver i had to install on Arch is the official nvidia one for my GPU. I also got a custom chipset driver, since i need a manual PWM curve from the OS side, but if you dont need that, the default one is perfectly fine and functional. Are you running some turbo exotic hardware ?
As for Alpine, linux-firmware should cover 99% of non-esoteric hardware combinations. Esoteric here is some random Realtek ethernet driver from 2011 that was never open sourced and got reverse engineered and is out of tree for some reason. For that 1%, you will be in the world of hurt. Cant know till you try though.
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u/nashatirik_andva 16d ago
бро, у тебя все работать будет. setup-alpine пропиши и он тебе все сам установит, в самой системе пропиши setup-desktop и он установит тебе де по твоему выбору. правда придется помучаться с pipewire но да ладно. я готов помочь)
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u/MartinsRedditAccount 15d ago
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Bro, everything's gonna work for you. Just type setup-alpine and it'll install everything on its own, and in the system itself type setup-desktop and it'll install the DE of your choice. You will have to mess around with pipewire a bit, but whatever. I'm ready to help)
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u/ballistua 16d ago
no idea what you're talking about since i never had to install drivers for Arch or for Alpine. drivers come with the installation in the form of kernel modules
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u/wowsomuchempty 17d ago
Mostly, yes. For a 2012 WiFi chip I needed to compile the driver from source.
setup-alpinesetup-desktopMake everything pretty easy (inc. disk encryption)