

Actaully super nice using it with KDE or a independant window manager- But then you just have all the desktop packages installed anyway so my resource useage is the exact same as my arch setup…
Alpine is amazingly small compared to other bare bones distros, but that saved 10mb of ram doesn’t mean much when your desktop and browser are using a gig



A lot of people overblowing this in the replies right now. Machine-id is mainly used by fleet admins at companys to manage individual devices, to generate system application keys, or tag logs (and yes systemD provides this file, but so does dbus and many non systemD applications depend on it). Chrome and Firefox might access your machine-id but their also tracking you in much worse ways by default aswell, if you care about privacy your probably already using an alternative browser that dosent use your machine-id
The problem isnt windows or linux having a machine-id but that your applications are not properally sandboxed (flatpak does not sandbox /etc by default, so no, flatpak is not a solution) or that your using applications that handle security poorly