I've been using Alpine recently on my X200, and while it does require an arch linux chroot for some applications (due to some slight musllibc/gnulibc interop problems), overall it's one of the most pleasant, and stable distributions I've ever worked with.<p>As a regular user of systemd (I use arch linux as my main and therefore was one of the first adopters of systemd) I am subjected to irregular and weird irreplicable bootup bugs and timing problems. Alpine reminds me of a simpler time when my computer's bootup was deterministic, and a hang at boot was only ever caused by a disk problem, rather than something trivial like having to wait 3 minutes because it can't connect to the network.<p>I totally understand the reason for there to be 'bloat' in projects like systemd, GNU libc, etc. And I understand that often that bloat is needed, to cover the edge cases in the thousands of use cases for which they are deployed. However, it's only really when I moved to Alpine that I understood just how much of it there was, and how much of an impact it had on not only my interactions <i>with</i> the computer, but other concerns like my energy usage, etc. It was a like a breath of fresh air for me, and it reminded me that computing could be good, again.