It was my first linux, but I haven't used it in ages. I never found installing from source tgz to be that bad, but dep trees have gotten much deeper over time. I don't think windowmaker had clipboard support when I left it. There is something nice about knowing what every file in your system is for, and being able to read most of them with ed. Alpine scratches that itch for me. I try to sub in anything with a rust equivalent I can. Building rust may have deep trees, but with musl the only runtime dep is usually the kernel itself.
