i really like a lot of design choices in chimera linux (particularly around its packaging/build system), but as a current alpine linux (main pc, not docker) user, i find i still can't justify musl. i like small simple correct software, but musl, despite being all of those things, is, in my experience
- slower than glibc, and in occasionally difficult to predict spots;
- causes just a bit too much trouble porting software to it -- most upstreams are reluctant to accept patches, resulting in maintenance overhead for the distribution;
- occasionally subtly breaks things at runtime -- e.g. both alpine and chimera builds of firefox have the same two crashes which neither the official mozilla nor archlinux builds exhibit.
in the end i find i have to rely on my glibc chroot (e.g. for mozilla firefox build) too much for my liking.
- slower than glibc, and in occasionally difficult to predict spots;
- causes just a bit too much trouble porting software to it -- most upstreams are reluctant to accept patches, resulting in maintenance overhead for the distribution;
- occasionally subtly breaks things at runtime -- e.g. both alpine and chimera builds of firefox have the same two crashes which neither the official mozilla nor archlinux builds exhibit.
in the end i find i have to rely on my glibc chroot (e.g. for mozilla firefox build) too much for my liking.