Check ublue approach like for example in this repo: https://github.com/ublue-os/beyond

In other words, leverage native OCI containers.

Gnome Console since it is consistent with the rest of Gnome and works well enough.

Those configuration files are for managing system’s package manager, so I don’t think $HOME would be a better place.

From lack of a better solution, I would symlink the folder or use stow --target /etc flag if you use stow for managing dotfiles.

Do note that it won’t work well with flatpak Firefox: https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/09/25/firefox-gnome-shell-search-provider/

Gentoo and Alpine are both really great distributions.

And with lots of polish and convenient features.

Yes, I thrive in it.

Thank you for indulging me! I tried Alpine for a moment with Sway but it was really bare and I had some issues with setting up seatd and/or elogind to ensure some usual niceties like auto-mounting of usb drives etc. I was curious how is daily-driving it experienced by others.

How do you handle lack of systemd? Do you use elogind or seatd? Do you package some things yourself considering Alpine isn’t popular as a desktop distribution?