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Clear Linux
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Reader supplied reviews for Clear Linux
Average rating
7.5 from 22 review(s)
Version: 39710
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-09-25
Votes: 0
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A lousy software...it cleaned my disk and not install on an HP with an Intel I5.
Bye, bye, Clear Linux
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Version: 39710
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-09-22
Votes: 1
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Windows is like a bull dozer on ice; Mac OS is a chain saw; Linux Mint is a machete; Fedora is a chef's knife; Clear linux is a scalpel, and Arch is a needle, menuet os is a laser.
Each has their strengths depending on the purpose. If you're doing very limited tasks and want all the muscle of your system behind what your doing but still would like some of the modern luxuries then Clear linux is your OS, but it won't exactly be effortless. on the flip token if you're ok with giving up control and just want to play some games and watch tiktok... then windows I guess.
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Version: 39710
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-08-29
Votes: 2
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Installer won't proceed without an internet connection.
Advanced settings tab easy to miss, that's where you can turn off telemetry.
The installer failed a couple times at different spots, mainly when it changed the partitions on my nvme drive, or configured the swap file.
once installed... boy does it scream... faster than a bat outta hell.
I stuck with gnome... some of the buttons don't do anything (ie set as background in the context menu, also the uninstall buttons in the App Store). So if you're not comfortable with CLI, then this OS is really not for you.
If you like no crashes, no Telemetry, optimized performance, then give this one a spin, otherwise, stick with the mainstream stuff and the intel fanbois here will do laps around you.
Cheers.
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Version: 39400
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-07-22
Votes: 2
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Installed fine on my Mini PC desktop. Not exactly a mainstream release very much a specific focused release and a rolling one at that. Definitely notice the performance improvement aspects. Apparently it updates in the background but fails to ever notify of these updates. Gnome feels much like Fedora lot of similarities from an average user. App Store oddly list Chrome as a non stable release? Although Brave is also offered as well. Nice to see some commercial reals software being offered. Because it is not a mainstream release but more a cutting edge type rolling release I won't be sticking with it.
I did like the install process and I had no issues with hardware detection. Certainly an interesting Distro.
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Version: 37980
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-03-21
Votes: 9
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I have a HP laptop which has an underpinning for Intel. I must say I love the concept of Clear. It does optimize the system. Normally a GNOME desktop would run 1.5- 2 GB of the RAM. With Clear, the norm was 700-800 MB. So, yes, there's a difference, Was rather snappy and quick.
The reasons I gave the 1:
There were problems installing. Apparently it's not enough for certain responses to be set in the installer. Even if the settings were "pre-set" and they're ok to remain in this way by the user, the user still needs to "click" on the response to indicate it's chosen. If one doesn't, they will receive notice of a failed install. Also learned it's better to at least have a cleared hard drive prior to the install. If one doesn't, this may also cause the install to fail.
When there's automatic updates post-install the OS will not inform the user. The only way to find out is through the terminal and attempt to install something, then one retrieves notice there's a lock in place due to the process being in use.
After the update occurred, tried to reboot. The system booted to a blank screen. Which should not be happening with automatic updating. The forums were of no help and this issue couldn't be corrected. This occurred twice when I installed it. There is no excuse for this.
I had tried Clear I've used it before before. When all is in place it seems to be a good system which lives up to the hype about being optimized for Intel computers. it's one of the things I look for in a Linux. (Opensuse Tumbleweed, which is what I'm not using, is another such system.)
However, the programmers should at least make sure company-sanctioned updating for the system itself functions when they take place.
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Version: 37860
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-17
Votes: 1
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currently running the OS on a HP laptop and it is by far the quickest it's been, super snappy, super responsive, and there's bundles or flatpaks for everything I want to do. not the biggest fan of Gnome, but it's encouraged me to configure something i want, and it's useable for me without issue, but Xfce and KDE are possible to be installed as well if you prefer. for those curious, i have flatpak version of steam running and came game just fine on it if thats your thing. please be aware when trying this OS is that its designed for Intel processors, so virtual/AMD/whatever wont work as well as bare metal Intel, and i cannot speak for GPU support as the device im using is running integrated intel.
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Version: 37860
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-22
Votes: 2
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Really wanted to try this one out, after reading good reviews about itś speed, but no matter what, I couldn´t get it working properly. Mouse cursor was missing and any and all usual linux or gnome tricks were useless. Mouse is a normal usb mouse, works fine in bios and other distros, but on latest Live version mouse cursor was lost both in live usb and installed version. (Managed to use accesibility ctrl key for installation) Perhaps it is not an usb issue, but a GPU. No help from Clear Linux forums either.
Hoping I figure it out somehow, or this gets sorted in later version.
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Version: 37860
Rating: 6
Date: 2023-01-21
Votes: 0
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It boots up to a black screen in VirtualBox, but works in Parallels.
I found the performance to be mixed. It boots up and shuts down very fast and loads Firefox quickly, but bringing up a virtual terminal, file manager and some other applications is quiet slow.
Only Gnome is offered as a desktop environment by default and that may not be to everyones liking.
It didn't save the keyboard layout chosen in the install program.
ISO file is pretty large at 4,39 GB and 14 GB is used on the root partition after install.
I like that Clear Linux is an independent distribution, but unfortunately it uses systemd.
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Version: 36010
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-12-17
Votes: 3
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Not great, I tried this on a Virtual Machine. I thought it will be a good and stable distribution but no, I ran into some issues. First of all when I first installed it I couldnt update my system because swupd update ran continusly possibly doing nothing, so had to disable the service. Second of all, when I succesfully updated the GUI broke. I do not know if it is my fault or a corrupted install. The only pros are it is fast and boots in just 4 seconds! Also I ran this on an AMD CPU (Ryzen 5 5600G)
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Version: 36010
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-11-23
Votes: 5
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High performance OS. Very fast. But most people struggle with either the package manager, swupd, which requires some understanding and the system layout.
Intel no longer placing any development time on desktop use, though they are keeping it maintained with Gnome.
Rolling releases, so you can get an issue from time to time.
Some issues with certain builds not loading in a hypervisor at all.
Run the prep script first to make sure you have the needed CPU instructions, BIOS settings and features Clear expects enabled.
Check the Intel maintained blogs for information on NVidia drivers, codec loading and other application issues, many dependencies can be resolved with an additional bundle installation.
Can run on Intel and AMD CPU's, but does stumble periodically on new AMD Mobile Ryzens from time to time.
Don't run your company on it.
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Version: 36010
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-08-02
Votes: 14
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Very fast distro and now quite customizable and complete compared to a few years past, kde chrome and wine work very well for my desktop.
Very fast in startup and in applications. Gentoo and arch seem slow as turtles by comparison.
In my opinion a revolutionary distro I hope that intel makes the community grow strangely I have not found a link to make a donation.
Now that I have installed it, I am convinced to use it, I will also test the efficiency of the updates.
I am not a technician but a linux user for many years, in my humble opinion it seems an excellent way for the future unfortunately not advertised enough.
This distro is truly advanced not a debian remixed let's get to know it.
Try it, experience it.
Sorry my english
Grazie
Marco
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Version: 36010
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-04-13
Votes: 3
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Using Clear Linux OS as a desktop OS for my system enginnering career, so far everything works fine. Bad thing is that it has issues with some propietary stuff such as NVIDIA's drivers, and there is no a definite workaround for that.
Performance is pretty good. For my studying purpouses works pretty well, although I don't think I would be able to replace my main OS for other stuff because of the mentioned NVIDIA's issues. It has some minor bugs in GNOME 42 such as the activities overview freezing if you try to close apps from there. But overall it's pretty good, only things it would need to be a 10/10 distro is to fix a bit the bugs and compatibility with NVIDIA drivers (swupd not messing them up).
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Version: 36010
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-03-30
Votes: 0
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Amazing distro, it recognizes all my hardware better than ubuntu and fedora automatically. However, the bluetooth must be turned on whenever I start the system again manually.
The integration with flatpak, the speed of response and its integration with xorg are its best qualities. The documentation is weak or non-existent, and that its software is almost only what is in flatpak are its negative points in my opinion.
I have an asus ux324ea, and since almost all its components are intel, they work very well.
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Version: 36010
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-25
Votes: 4
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-King of speed
-Gnome 42
-Managed to make my VPN work with sudo swupd bundle-add network-basic
-Very well-thought package management system which makes it the most robust rolling release distro out there
-It destroyed my distro-hopping habit
-Unfortunately, I cannot rate this more than 10 out of 10 lol
-This is the future and you should take the time to watch the video on their homepage Why Clear Linux and you'll understand how Clear Linux is revolutionary
-At the end of the day, it took a serious company like Intel to make a solid serious distro
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Version: 31300
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-11-10
Votes: 0
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I want to give it a 10 but can't atm because it's a distro designed with cloud use-cases in mind and I'm unable to add in "Accounts" my Google account
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Version: 31300
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-10-30
Votes: 3
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I installed it on asus laptop and it gave very positive initial expression. Notably fast boot - the fastest boot among many other distros. Gnome 40 is very responsive. Programs run smoothly. It's obviously super-tuned for Intel hw.
But it's too early to use it as a working OS.
It freezes on suspend. And I found that a few users experienced the same problem which was not addressed as yet.
I would recommend to test it and see how fast can be your hardware and maybe request from other major distro providers the same performance.
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Version: 31300
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-10-19
Votes: 1
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Just installed on my Dell Inspiron laptop (8GB RAM) and Clear Linux is FAST!!! I'm impressed. There probably are some issues with software availability, but the only thing that I want to get working and couldn't find a way to do so was the Brave browser. I managed to get Chrome to work and Mailspring via an RPM process, which seemed like a work around, but hey it worked.
Very nice, very solid distribution. I believe this will be one that will work well for corporations.
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Version: 31300
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-04-08
Votes: 1
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Installation process was very smooth. I had to adjust to gnome environment but that worked out well just by watching couple videos on how to tweak gnome. The only draw back right now is couple of my favorite browser not having bundles prepared for Clear Linux (e.g. Brave Browser or Vivaldi). It came up with all the VPN features required for me so no need for researching how to install OpenConnect. So far it has been a week of good experience with Clear Linux.
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Version: 31300
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-03-30
Votes: 0
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Installed on HP Z8 Workstation. Fast, very stable; using as CAD workstation + VM server for Win10. Easy to install & large development community.
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Version: 31300
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-03-28
Votes: 1
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Amazing ! Super fast, performance is great. Out of the box even the function keys worked as they should, no need to install anything.
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Version: 31300
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-02-17
Votes: 4
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Fast af, ubuntu feels terribly slow with gnome even with a pci e 4.0 ssd I despite most gnome OS, but this one is different.. Windows 10 I really like, it is my main OS for 8 years. I tried manjaro, linux mx, arch, pop os. So far out of those the fastest is linux mx, but I kept getting error when installing games and software. But this is even faster then linux mx. Windows 10 tweaked is pretty fast, but the thing is browsing feels slower.
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Version: 31300
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-01-05
Votes: 24
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I've never been able to stick with Linux. I've kept going back to Windows because it's always felt half baked. The closest I came to sticking with it were Arch and then Void Linux.
But I've found it and it's Clear Linux. The Gnome version (only Desktop on it's ISO) is quick on 2014 core i3 throwaway laptop. Quick enough to make me reconsider the Mac Mini M1 currently on the way.
Pros:
1. Quick, quick, quick!
2. Very stable. Haven't seen anything go awry while I was figuring it out.
3. System updates have been uneventful and quick (I guess based on how swupd package manager works).
Cons:
1. Software bundles are not flexible. It's often impossible to get a single package without installing an entire DE.
2. Repo is miniscule and you will need to use Flatpaks (AUR is great but Clear Linux is worth losing it).
3. Limited to a few DEs and WMs (see point 2). XFC, KDE Plasma, and a few others are available via their package manager.
4. EFI only (it's Intel so not surprising).
5. Nvidia drivers are a pain (luckily I don't buy Nvidia hardware on principle).
6. ffmpeg is not included (there is a 3rd part repo that has it but still a work in progress). Flatpaks don't have this issue.
7. It's inflexible and makes it hard to get the exact system you want (I used the server ISO and built the system I wanted).
So why a 9 after the long list of Cons? It's a joy and a marvel to use. I can't believe how much performance other distros are leaving on the table. Intel clearly set out to demonstrate this and achieved it in spades.
Other distros are going to need to copy Intel's secret sauce because the performance difference is too much to give up. A brand new Void install feels like molasses when I went back to it.
What are you waiting for!? Install it now!
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Latest Reviews
Project: Clear Linux
Version: 39710
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-09-25
Votes: 0
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A lousy software...it cleaned my disk and not install on an HP with an Intel I5.
Bye, bye, Clear Linux
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 39710
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-09-22
Votes: 1
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Windows is like a bull dozer on ice; Mac OS is a chain saw; Linux Mint is a machete; Fedora is a chef's knife; Clear linux is a scalpel, and Arch is a needle, menuet os is a laser.
Each has their strengths depending on the purpose. If you're doing very limited tasks and want all the muscle of your system behind what your doing but still would like some of the modern luxuries then Clear linux is your OS, but it won't exactly be effortless. on the flip token if you're ok with giving up control and just want to play some games and watch tiktok... then windows I guess.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 39710
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-08-29
Votes: 2
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Installer won't proceed without an internet connection.
Advanced settings tab easy to miss, that's where you can turn off telemetry.
The installer failed a couple times at different spots, mainly when it changed the partitions on my nvme drive, or configured the swap file.
once installed... boy does it scream... faster than a bat outta hell.
I stuck with gnome... some of the buttons don't do anything (ie set as background in the context menu, also the uninstall buttons in the App Store). So if you're not comfortable with CLI, then this OS is really not for you.
If you like no crashes, no Telemetry, optimized performance, then give this one a spin, otherwise, stick with the mainstream stuff and the intel fanbois here will do laps around you.
Cheers.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 39400
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-07-22
Votes: 2
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Installed fine on my Mini PC desktop. Not exactly a mainstream release very much a specific focused release and a rolling one at that. Definitely notice the performance improvement aspects. Apparently it updates in the background but fails to ever notify of these updates. Gnome feels much like Fedora lot of similarities from an average user. App Store oddly list Chrome as a non stable release? Although Brave is also offered as well. Nice to see some commercial reals software being offered. Because it is not a mainstream release but more a cutting edge type rolling release I won't be sticking with it.
I did like the install process and I had no issues with hardware detection. Certainly an interesting Distro.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 37980
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-03-21
Votes: 9
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I have a HP laptop which has an underpinning for Intel. I must say I love the concept of Clear. It does optimize the system. Normally a GNOME desktop would run 1.5- 2 GB of the RAM. With Clear, the norm was 700-800 MB. So, yes, there's a difference, Was rather snappy and quick.
The reasons I gave the 1:
There were problems installing. Apparently it's not enough for certain responses to be set in the installer. Even if the settings were "pre-set" and they're ok to remain in this way by the user, the user still needs to "click" on the response to indicate it's chosen. If one doesn't, they will receive notice of a failed install. Also learned it's better to at least have a cleared hard drive prior to the install. If one doesn't, this may also cause the install to fail.
When there's automatic updates post-install the OS will not inform the user. The only way to find out is through the terminal and attempt to install something, then one retrieves notice there's a lock in place due to the process being in use.
After the update occurred, tried to reboot. The system booted to a blank screen. Which should not be happening with automatic updating. The forums were of no help and this issue couldn't be corrected. This occurred twice when I installed it. There is no excuse for this.
I had tried Clear I've used it before before. When all is in place it seems to be a good system which lives up to the hype about being optimized for Intel computers. it's one of the things I look for in a Linux. (Opensuse Tumbleweed, which is what I'm not using, is another such system.)
However, the programmers should at least make sure company-sanctioned updating for the system itself functions when they take place.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 37860
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-17
Votes: 1
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currently running the OS on a HP laptop and it is by far the quickest it's been, super snappy, super responsive, and there's bundles or flatpaks for everything I want to do. not the biggest fan of Gnome, but it's encouraged me to configure something i want, and it's useable for me without issue, but Xfce and KDE are possible to be installed as well if you prefer. for those curious, i have flatpak version of steam running and came game just fine on it if thats your thing. please be aware when trying this OS is that its designed for Intel processors, so virtual/AMD/whatever wont work as well as bare metal Intel, and i cannot speak for GPU support as the device im using is running integrated intel.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 37860
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-22
Votes: 2
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Really wanted to try this one out, after reading good reviews about itś speed, but no matter what, I couldn´t get it working properly. Mouse cursor was missing and any and all usual linux or gnome tricks were useless. Mouse is a normal usb mouse, works fine in bios and other distros, but on latest Live version mouse cursor was lost both in live usb and installed version. (Managed to use accesibility ctrl key for installation) Perhaps it is not an usb issue, but a GPU. No help from Clear Linux forums either.
Hoping I figure it out somehow, or this gets sorted in later version.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 37860
Rating: 6
Date: 2023-01-21
Votes: 0
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It boots up to a black screen in VirtualBox, but works in Parallels.
I found the performance to be mixed. It boots up and shuts down very fast and loads Firefox quickly, but bringing up a virtual terminal, file manager and some other applications is quiet slow.
Only Gnome is offered as a desktop environment by default and that may not be to everyones liking.
It didn't save the keyboard layout chosen in the install program.
ISO file is pretty large at 4,39 GB and 14 GB is used on the root partition after install.
I like that Clear Linux is an independent distribution, but unfortunately it uses systemd.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 36010
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-12-17
Votes: 3
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Not great, I tried this on a Virtual Machine. I thought it will be a good and stable distribution but no, I ran into some issues. First of all when I first installed it I couldnt update my system because swupd update ran continusly possibly doing nothing, so had to disable the service. Second of all, when I succesfully updated the GUI broke. I do not know if it is my fault or a corrupted install. The only pros are it is fast and boots in just 4 seconds! Also I ran this on an AMD CPU (Ryzen 5 5600G)
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 36010
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-11-23
Votes: 5
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High performance OS. Very fast. But most people struggle with either the package manager, swupd, which requires some understanding and the system layout.
Intel no longer placing any development time on desktop use, though they are keeping it maintained with Gnome.
Rolling releases, so you can get an issue from time to time.
Some issues with certain builds not loading in a hypervisor at all.
Run the prep script first to make sure you have the needed CPU instructions, BIOS settings and features Clear expects enabled.
Check the Intel maintained blogs for information on NVidia drivers, codec loading and other application issues, many dependencies can be resolved with an additional bundle installation.
Can run on Intel and AMD CPU's, but does stumble periodically on new AMD Mobile Ryzens from time to time.
Don't run your company on it.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 36010
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-08-02
Votes: 14
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Very fast distro and now quite customizable and complete compared to a few years past, kde chrome and wine work very well for my desktop.
Very fast in startup and in applications. Gentoo and arch seem slow as turtles by comparison.
In my opinion a revolutionary distro I hope that intel makes the community grow strangely I have not found a link to make a donation.
Now that I have installed it, I am convinced to use it, I will also test the efficiency of the updates.
I am not a technician but a linux user for many years, in my humble opinion it seems an excellent way for the future unfortunately not advertised enough.
This distro is truly advanced not a debian remixed let's get to know it.
Try it, experience it.
Sorry my english
Grazie
Marco
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 36010
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-04-13
Votes: 3
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Using Clear Linux OS as a desktop OS for my system enginnering career, so far everything works fine. Bad thing is that it has issues with some propietary stuff such as NVIDIA's drivers, and there is no a definite workaround for that.
Performance is pretty good. For my studying purpouses works pretty well, although I don't think I would be able to replace my main OS for other stuff because of the mentioned NVIDIA's issues. It has some minor bugs in GNOME 42 such as the activities overview freezing if you try to close apps from there. But overall it's pretty good, only things it would need to be a 10/10 distro is to fix a bit the bugs and compatibility with NVIDIA drivers (swupd not messing them up).
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 36010
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-03-30
Votes: 0
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Amazing distro, it recognizes all my hardware better than ubuntu and fedora automatically. However, the bluetooth must be turned on whenever I start the system again manually.
The integration with flatpak, the speed of response and its integration with xorg are its best qualities. The documentation is weak or non-existent, and that its software is almost only what is in flatpak are its negative points in my opinion.
I have an asus ux324ea, and since almost all its components are intel, they work very well.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 36010
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-25
Votes: 4
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-King of speed
-Gnome 42
-Managed to make my VPN work with sudo swupd bundle-add network-basic
-Very well-thought package management system which makes it the most robust rolling release distro out there
-It destroyed my distro-hopping habit
-Unfortunately, I cannot rate this more than 10 out of 10 lol
-This is the future and you should take the time to watch the video on their homepage Why Clear Linux and you'll understand how Clear Linux is revolutionary
-At the end of the day, it took a serious company like Intel to make a solid serious distro
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 31300
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-11-10
Votes: 0
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I want to give it a 10 but can't atm because it's a distro designed with cloud use-cases in mind and I'm unable to add in "Accounts" my Google account
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 31300
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-10-30
Votes: 3
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I installed it on asus laptop and it gave very positive initial expression. Notably fast boot - the fastest boot among many other distros. Gnome 40 is very responsive. Programs run smoothly. It's obviously super-tuned for Intel hw.
But it's too early to use it as a working OS.
It freezes on suspend. And I found that a few users experienced the same problem which was not addressed as yet.
I would recommend to test it and see how fast can be your hardware and maybe request from other major distro providers the same performance.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 31300
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-10-19
Votes: 1
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Just installed on my Dell Inspiron laptop (8GB RAM) and Clear Linux is FAST!!! I'm impressed. There probably are some issues with software availability, but the only thing that I want to get working and couldn't find a way to do so was the Brave browser. I managed to get Chrome to work and Mailspring via an RPM process, which seemed like a work around, but hey it worked.
Very nice, very solid distribution. I believe this will be one that will work well for corporations.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 31300
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-04-08
Votes: 1
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Installation process was very smooth. I had to adjust to gnome environment but that worked out well just by watching couple videos on how to tweak gnome. The only draw back right now is couple of my favorite browser not having bundles prepared for Clear Linux (e.g. Brave Browser or Vivaldi). It came up with all the VPN features required for me so no need for researching how to install OpenConnect. So far it has been a week of good experience with Clear Linux.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 31300
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-03-30
Votes: 0
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Installed on HP Z8 Workstation. Fast, very stable; using as CAD workstation + VM server for Win10. Easy to install & large development community.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 31300
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-03-28
Votes: 1
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Amazing ! Super fast, performance is great. Out of the box even the function keys worked as they should, no need to install anything.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 31300
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-02-17
Votes: 4
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Fast af, ubuntu feels terribly slow with gnome even with a pci e 4.0 ssd I despite most gnome OS, but this one is different.. Windows 10 I really like, it is my main OS for 8 years. I tried manjaro, linux mx, arch, pop os. So far out of those the fastest is linux mx, but I kept getting error when installing games and software. But this is even faster then linux mx. Windows 10 tweaked is pretty fast, but the thing is browsing feels slower.
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Project: Clear Linux
Version: 31300
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-01-05
Votes: 24
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I've never been able to stick with Linux. I've kept going back to Windows because it's always felt half baked. The closest I came to sticking with it were Arch and then Void Linux.
But I've found it and it's Clear Linux. The Gnome version (only Desktop on it's ISO) is quick on 2014 core i3 throwaway laptop. Quick enough to make me reconsider the Mac Mini M1 currently on the way.
Pros:
1. Quick, quick, quick!
2. Very stable. Haven't seen anything go awry while I was figuring it out.
3. System updates have been uneventful and quick (I guess based on how swupd package manager works).
Cons:
1. Software bundles are not flexible. It's often impossible to get a single package without installing an entire DE.
2. Repo is miniscule and you will need to use Flatpaks (AUR is great but Clear Linux is worth losing it).
3. Limited to a few DEs and WMs (see point 2). XFC, KDE Plasma, and a few others are available via their package manager.
4. EFI only (it's Intel so not surprising).
5. Nvidia drivers are a pain (luckily I don't buy Nvidia hardware on principle).
6. ffmpeg is not included (there is a 3rd part repo that has it but still a work in progress). Flatpaks don't have this issue.
7. It's inflexible and makes it hard to get the exact system you want (I used the server ISO and built the system I wanted).
So why a 9 after the long list of Cons? It's a joy and a marvel to use. I can't believe how much performance other distros are leaving on the table. Intel clearly set out to demonstrate this and achieved it in spades.
Other distros are going to need to copy Intel's secret sauce because the performance difference is too much to give up. A brand new Void install feels like molasses when I went back to it.
What are you waiting for!? Install it now!
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Choose from a wide range of laptops and PCs in various sizes and shapes at TUXEDOComputers.com. Every machine comes pre-installed and ready-to-run with Linux. Full 24 months of warranty and lifetime support included!
Learn more about our full service package and all benefits from buying at TUXEDO.
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| Star Labs |
Star Labs - Laptops built for Linux.
View our range including the highly anticipated StarFighter. Available with coreboot open-source firmware and a choice of Ubuntu, elementary, Manjaro and more. Visit Star Labs for information, to buy and get support.
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