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Even With A $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior Performance To Fedora Or Ubuntu

With the GEGL library that is used by The GIMP and other imaging programs, Clear Linux provided significantly better performance than Fedora and Ubuntu.

The Python performance also remains faster on Clear.