Every linux distribution has advantages and disadvantages, depending on the use case they were created for. The most significant differences will come from the bootloader, init system, display renderer (which is really more like a login manager), desktop environment, package manager
There are several different Alpine versions available. Docker images should probably be based on the Mini Root Filesystem version; Minimal servers should probably be based on the standard ISO, but check the descriptions.
The old standard for managing disk partitions was via the Master Boot Record (MBR). This was replaced by GUID Partition Table (GPT). This is more flexible, more resilient, allows larger partition sizes, and is used with UEFI systems.
Tools like fdisk used to only support MBR, which made parted more useful for GPT support, but fdisk now also supports GPT.
Sometimes, when a process goes awry, you’ll want to find the pid with ps aux
| grep <processname> so that you can kill it. Sometimes, you’ll need tools
that let you do more investigating…
