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I just tried Artix. xorg would start and then freeze with no keyboard or mouse input. Also I had to manually modprobe my network driver to get internet to start. Seems like it will be good in the future, but didn't work for me out of the box. Thanks for the tip.

I wiped that partition then attempted an Alpine linux install on encrypted lvm. I got it installed and booting, internet works, but my video card driver doesn't put a /dev/dri/card0 into the devices so Xorg won't start. apk is a fast package manager, packages are limited. No tor or torsocks, so I tried to manually compile these. torsocks compiled but there were missing libraries that prevented tor from compiling or getting past ./configure. Also several things had to be linked manually. I tried to use modprobe and it didn't work so I had to make a soft link to

uname -r

in the kernel modules directory, the package manager had a hiccup so I had to delete and remake a directory in /var/cache/apk, and other small annoying things. For instance not knowing how to add a user since useradd and usermod groupadd aren't there, so busybox has adduser and addgroup instead. Took me an hour just to figure that out.

I have /boot unencrypted and two lvm partitions that are encrypted with volumes for /root /usr /var /swap and /home.
My second encrypted partition boots to hyperbola which is familiar enough for me to keep using minus some missing applications and missing libraries causing unexpected behavior. mpv and endstream are working again. I noticed that endnode wasn't working out of the box on Alpine, I fixed it on that partition and I'll upload the changed file to github later.

I put Alpine on the first encrypted lvm partition after failing with Artix. I used these as a guide after setting up the luks encrypted lvm the usual way:

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Installing_Alpine_Linux_in_a_chroot

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Setting_up_a_laptop

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_setup_scripts#setup-xorg-base

It took me a day of tinkering to get it to be usable in the command line (tmux, links, torsocks, geoiplookup ...) , but I couldn't get xorg to start due to a missing kernel driver or some kind of problem with the kernel not creating a /dev/dri/card0 for the display driver. My impression is that it's not ready for prime time yet. I'm going to keep looking. I might try Slackware next, that seems like a safe bet.