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Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS
- crispinb 7y agoLargely concur with the review - Clear Linux is surprisingly polished, the performance boosts are noticeable and the stateless aspect is confidence-inspiring, but it just requires a bit too much manual intervention to be a replacement for something like Ubuntu or Fedora (which I don't think is its immediate aim, so that's fine). The biggest practical problem for me was the relative paucity of available software (and sometimes difficulty of discovering which bundles to install). I frequently had to go through the old "download - configure - make - make install - discover missing dependencies - swear" routine, and I guess I lack the patience for that these days. Much software that is available is in the form of snap packages, which somewhat reduces Clear's performance benefit, as they're often very slow to launch.