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To use Alpine Linux as a Desktop, a desktop environment needs to be installed. The desktops environments that can be installed in Quickstart mode using Setup-desktop utility are listed:

Note: Before installing any desktop,

create a non-privileged user account for security reasons.
enable the community repository. Setup-desktop script automatically does this for you.

Installation using setup-desktop

The Alpine Linux script for setting up a desktop quickly is setup-desktop.

# setup-desktop

On running the above command, you will be prompted to select a desktop environment.

Which desktop environment? ('gnome', 'plasma', 'xfce', 'mate', 'sway' or 'none') [none]

Once you have chosen a desktop environment, this script installs the chosen desktop along with all the necessary packages, firefox browser and adds the necessary services to run on startup. You can reboot when complete and the system will boot into a graphical login screen with the desktop environment. Depending on the desktop chosen, the script also activates the necessary services like dbus, elogind, login manager etc..

To view all the packages that are installed by the script for the chosen desktop you can issue the below command:

# cat /sbin/setup-desktop

In addition to the above, Alpine Linux repositories supports other Desktop environments and Window managers, which can be installed manually.

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-{{Tip|Before installing a desktop, you may want to create a non-privileged [[Setting_up_a_new_user#Creating_a_new_user|user account]] for security reasons.}}
-== Quickstart Installation ==
+To use Alpine Linux as a [[Daily driver guide|Desktop]], a desktop environment needs to be installed. The desktops environments that can be installed in  Quickstart mode using Setup-desktop utility are listed:
-The Alpine Linux utility for setting up any desktop quickly is <code>setup-desktop</code>. Most commonly used desktop environements can be quickly installed with this utility, which is part of the standard Alpine Linux installation package {{pkg|alpine-conf|repo=main}}.
+* [[KDE|Plasma]]
+* [[GNOME|Gnome]]
+* [[MATE]]
+* [[Xfce]]
+* [[Sway]]
-{{Cmd|# setup-desktop}}
+{{:Include:Setup-desktop}}
-The above utility installs the chosen desktop environment with all the necessary dependencies and standard utilities and commonly used applications along with {{pkg|firefox|repo=main}} as browser.
+In addition to the above, Alpine Linux [[Repositories|repositories]] supports other [[Desktop_environments_and_Window_managers|Desktop environments and Window managers]], which can be installed manually.
+== See Also ==
+* [[Daily_driver_guide|Alpine Linux - Daily Driver Guide]]
+* [[Tutorials_and_Howtos#Desktop|Tutorials related to Desktop]]
+* [[Desktop environments and Window managers]]
+* [[Installation#Post-Installation|Post Installation]]
+* [[:Category:Display Managers]]
+* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_environment Desktop environment - Archwiki]
+* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Desktop_environment Desktop environment - Gentoo Wiki]
+[[Category:Desktop]]
+[[Category:Newbie]]