egeexyz

Clear Linux - The Best Ever?

Added 2020-06-01 23:15:23 +0000 UTC

The Linux community has a habit of hyping up distros to the point where you'd think they are going to take over the entire ecosystem and become the Linux distro everyone uses.

Is Clear Linux that? No, of course not.

To be honest, it's not even that interesting. For containerized workloads and hosts, I guess maybe but why use Clear Linux over something like RancherOS or even just plain Ubuntu?

It starts up and shutdowns super quick but on my hardware, that was pretty much the only remarkable thing about it. I know I didn't cover all the use cases with this video but I really don't see anything super special about it that other distros can't already do.

I compared it to Fedora a few times in the video and I wish I had riffed on that a bit more. It feels like the Clear devs looked at Fedora and almost reversed engineered it because it feels so similar. You'll have to try it for yourself to see what I mean.