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I use Alpine, tbh I dont see why I should learn an entire programming language just for a distro
Alpine just feels like everything on my system is there for a reason (and somehow makes arch feel "bloated") so I 100% understand wanting a full config file for everything on your system. But DAMN THE DOCS SUCK. Also NixOS locks you into systemd...
I have an old Laptop with a second gen i3 and 4gb of ram. Alpine runs very smoothly with Sway.
Because whenever I use apt or a similar standard package manager there is always some issue. For example, I start up an Ubuntu VPS and try to run nginx just to find out that Ubuntu 24 only has 1.24
And to get a newer version you need to do a bunch of steps:
How are these sources.list incantations any different from editing a configuration.nix file?
Why do you use Alpine?
Very old computer
Alpine actually isn't more lightweight than something like Debian. You can use whatever you want of course.
I think Alpine is best used in a container.