A Linux user coming to Alpine will be startled how barebones and manual do-it-yourself everything is, but it is still Linux and a quick web-search tells you how to do most things. It's like Arch for grownups.

If they come to NetBSD, they are in for a cold hard dose of culture shock. You have to manually choose to install a package manager, for instance. If you do, when it "installs" things, you then are expected to read the little text files it leaves behind which tell you how to manually finish the job yourself -- something any 21st century Linux user would expect to have been done already. Not here.

It is hard.

Alpine is hard but not as hard. If this can bring Alpine levels of usability to NetBSD, I am here for it.