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The 9 Smallest Linux Distros That Are Super Lightweight
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I think one of the smallest yet fully up-to-date distros around is Alpine Linux.
It might not be a perfect desktop because of Musl incompatibilities but hey, it has a ton of apps in the repos, if your usecase it's simple it might be enough.
Keep in mind that it doesn't have good out of the box support for broadcom. (Broadcom is the old Nvidia and is a pain to get working under Linux)