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Clear Linux is blazing fast (compiled with Intel compilers), and supposedly has a strong security model -- but it also has an extremely limited package selection. To the point that it's just not usable for me.

Also, its package manager forces you to install "bundles" of somewhat related packages rather than just the specific packages you want and their deps. Maybe I'm missing something, but I find this very odd.

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> compiled with Intel compilers

This is a common misconception. It's not built with ICC, it's built with GCC (and some parts maybe with Clang).

When did you try Clear? They have about 6200 packages now, but I'm not sure if that's still "limited" in relative terms.

Oh interesting. I did not know it used GCC. It feels super snappy, nonetheless.

Last time I tried it was a couple of months ago. I don't recall what it was missing, but it was some core part of my normal python development environment.

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