Why is it clearlinux always wins in every comparison? Seriously I wonder Intel can squeeze everything out of their chips.
I never heard about clearlinux except on phoenix. Im not sure who the users are for this.
I've been using it. It's pretty good. It's basically the same Ubuntu you've been seeing since 17.10. The performance is better, there's some tweaks to gnome, and the Yaru theme from 18.10 is great. It's refinements mostly.
Not secured on the browser
Plain HTTP is so much better for downloading public stuff while being behind these crappy corporate HTTPS firewalls.
You then just verify the files with the GPG tools.
This. In my limited experience, HTTP MITM doesn't really happen. I'm sure TLS is quite fast on reasonably modern magic rocks, but for things like distribution ISOs I prefer to download only checksums over HTTPS.