A user experimenting with Clear Linux had an opinion to share on their mailing list and referred to it as a “toy” distribution and some of our readers have expressed similar opinions on it. Here is the response by one of the Intel developers central to Clear Linux’s development.
The user referred to it as a toy project over not supporting as much hardware as some distributions, supporting too much GNOME “bloatware”, and not easily supporting as much closed-source software.
Basically, Clear Linux is focused on being a developer OS and not a general purpose OS to satisfy every user’s desire. Their code for third-party / closed-source packages on Clear Linux should help in broadening their software ecosystem but they are marching to the beat of their own drum that doesn’t necessarily align with the ways of other Linux distributions especially on the desktop front.
[Source: Phoronix]
