Clear Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Clear Linux Average rating 7.7 from 18 review(s) What are your thoughts on Clear Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 379803786035000313002790012430 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 37980 Rating: 1 Date: 2023-03-21 Votes: 0 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 37860 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-02-17 Votes: 0 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 37860 Rating: 1 Date: 2023-01-22 Votes: 2 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 18 reader reviews of Clear Linux...