https://mrgreen.blog/tags/wayland/Recent content in Wayland on Mr Green's Linux BlogHugoen-usFri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mrgreen.blog/posts/2026-04-03-building-greenbang-wayland-alpine/Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mrgreen.blog/posts/2026-04-03-building-greenbang-wayland-alpine/<p>I wanted a systemd-free version of ArchBang. Something minimal, keyboard-driven, and built on Alpine Linux instead. The name—GreenBang—references Alpine&rsquo;s green branding and my own username, and it became the foundation for a distro that strips away the overhead while keeping the philosophy: intentional, lean, dark Wayland desktop with no cruft.</p> <p>That project is GreenBang, and it&rsquo;s still very much in beta.</p> <h2 id="why-alpine-why-wayland">Why Alpine? Why Wayland?</h2> <p>Alpine is ruthlessly lean. A base ISO is measured in megabytes, not gigabytes. That&rsquo;s the core philosophy here—do more with less. Wayland felt like the right move because X11 is aging, and if I&rsquo;m building something new, why carry legacy baggage?</p>