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  Clear Linux relies on systemd to provide the basic OS components

https://clearlinux.org/feature...

it's a "feature", just like the IME, creepy uncle intelirapist prowls your underwear drawer

Did you Google? https://clearlinux.org/

Neither of TFA's or the /. summary provide a link to Clear Linux. WTF?!?!

Here it is: https://clearlinux.org/

I get why sites like Network World and BetaNews avoid linking to the subject of their articles. Heaven forbid a reader click the link and leave their site, possibly never to return! Won't somebody please think about the advertisers! Reasonable financial motives for bad behavior doesn't change the fact that it's bad behavior.

>I'd like to use an Intel Linux distro that was really stable and could let me use Intel hardware to its full potential.

I think they thought of that: https://clearlinux.org/

Appeal to your own emotions, you can not manipulate mine.

The appeal is to reason rather than your emotional reaction to your misinterpretation of events. The official documentation is right here plain as day, not hidden at all, intentional or otherwise.

Clear Linux also comes packaged with spyware

From the 1st paragraph at that link:

The end users may disable the telemetry component of Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture or even redirect where records go if they wish to collect for themselves.

That's what Canonical (Ubuntu) and a few others think, and it's wrong. Clever wording like "We send only minimal stuff without your knowledge" and "it's for your own good and so that we can make it better" don't change the default state of the software in question. I refuse to load Ubuntu on anything because Canonical installed their software in an always on state and hid it from consumers. I will never ever trust them again, just like I have not trusted Microsoft after their shenanigans (yeah, you have to go back pretty far for me trusting MS).

Very simply put, if it's always on and users don't have big flashing lights warning them at first boot that it's going to be on, then it's intentionally hiding the software. You can claim good intent all you want, but if you tried to hide from the start do you think I'll believe your intent is altruistic? "Fool me once", and all those quotes.

Clear Linux also comes packaged with spyware

From the 1st paragraph at that link:

The end users may disable the telemetry component of Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture or even redirect where records go if they wish to collect for themselves.

Not the point. Telemetry collection should be opt-in, not opt-out.

Clear Linux also comes packaged with spyware

From the 1st paragraph at that link:

The end users may disable the telemetry component of Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture or even redirect where records go if they wish to collect for themselves.

Clear Linux also comes packaged with spyware

Clear uses gcc-5.3.0 - see https://download.clearlinux.or...

"In support of the goal to provide an agile Linux* distribution that rapidly detects and responds to quality issues in the field, Clear Linux for Intel® Architecture includes a telemetry solution, which notes events of interest and reports them back to the development team."

https://clearlinux.org/feature...