<story><title>Chimera Linux</title><url>https://chimera-linux.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>5-</author><text>i really like a lot of design choices in chimera linux (particularly around its packaging&amp;#x2F;build system), but as a current alpine linux (main pc, not docker) user, i find i still can&amp;#x27;t justify musl. i like small simple correct software, but musl, despite being all of those things, is, in my experience&lt;p&gt;- slower than glibc, and in occasionally difficult to predict spots;&lt;p&gt;- 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;&lt;p&gt;- 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.&lt;p&gt;in the end i find i have to rely on my glibc chroot (e.g. for mozilla firefox build) too much for my liking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NewJazz</author><text>&lt;i&gt;[musl is] slower than glibc, and in occasionally difficult to predict spots&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Note that sometimes (&amp;#x2F;often) this purely due to the allocator, and as far as I remember Chimera uses a different allocator than the stock musl one.</text></comment>
<story><title>Chimera Linux</title><url>https://chimera-linux.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>5-</author><text>i really like a lot of design choices in chimera linux (particularly around its packaging&amp;#x2F;build system), but as a current alpine linux (main pc, not docker) user, i find i still can&amp;#x27;t justify musl. i like small simple correct software, but musl, despite being all of those things, is, in my experience&lt;p&gt;- slower than glibc, and in occasionally difficult to predict spots;&lt;p&gt;- 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;&lt;p&gt;- 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.&lt;p&gt;in the end i find i have to rely on my glibc chroot (e.g. for mozilla firefox build) too much for my liking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freedomben</author><text>This has been my experience with alpine as well.  musl just ends up causing much more trouble than it is worth</text></comment>