Alpine runs in memory on the Pi, which is great for performance, security, and for minimizing wear on the SD-card. The downside is that it has no persistent storage. Everything done on such a system is cleared out on reboot.
Alpine Linux
I already said that I like Gentoo Linux, but it can take some effort to keep it up to date, especially on less capable hardware. I tried to install Gentoo on a Raspberry Pi 4B and found a way how to do that, years back. However, that project is dead now, and the successor project on the Gentoo Wiki looks a lot more complicated. I have done those cross compile excercises in the past, and found that it requires even more maintenance than regular Gentoo. No thanks.
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