Reading the good-bye post after reading this news made me really dissapointed.
Although I still use CL for a while, I need to find the next migration target.
I would like to ask to other members, what is your next?
At this momemt, I am looking At
CachyOS is for performance heavy as
Solus takes stability importance, and ex-member of Clear Linux is involbing it.
Pop!_OS or Ubuntu is for safe bet.
And out of the blue hmm… not just a few months in advance.
Class move.
In hindsight, it looks like CL’s not updating the latest release page should have have tipped us off …
Anyway, I am asking the same question: looking for a Linux distro to migrate to: it needs to be closest to CL, i.e., among others, it needs to be/have:
Fedora Silverblue is not rolling, but rather follows semi-annual release cycles with modern tools that provide flexibility and access to up-to-date software via Flatpak and containers.
Forum :
This is another option (and rolling) :
I’m currently testing out CatchyOS. Ran into some problem getting Qemu/KVM up and running with virt-manager but figured it out just recently. (had to manually add the Qemu/KVM session under File/Add Connection).
I’ve disabled fish as the default shell ( ugh ) and resorted to good ole bash. pretty satisfied thus far. Also edited and set /boot/loader timeout=0 as systemd boot loader defaults to a timeout of 4 seconds whcih I don’t need during boot. Flatpak apps work fine and nvidia hardware detections worked fine using the catchy command chwd -a. Everything seems as fast as clear linux. I’m on a older Intel Xeon Haswell.
I have decided to test out Aeon (as recommended by @Businux). It looks very enticing. If that doesn’t work out, my next move would be Bluefin (also recommended by @Businux), and then CachyOS. As for performance concerns, the gain of CachyOS versus Aeon is negligible, not to mention that I am not a gamer.
Because they apply many optimizations to their kernels, including the CL ones.
So does the XanMod kernel and any distro using it.
I personally will be checking out Silverblue, as I got to interview Jorge Castro (@castrojo) during my time on the intel open source team, and he very much impressed me with his approach, passion and commitment.
Open Source: The Nerd Version of Formula One
And happy birthday @Businux !
I’m reborn since yesterday 
He’s more connected with Bluefin (and Dinosaurs) than Silverblue
quote from the site :
“The dynamic world of hot-blooded, rapidly evolving animals that were masters of their domain. We aim for our desktop to embody a similar nimbleness. Power and adaptability.”
So maybe Bluefin then, or possibly Bazzite.
I think it depends in what you want. In my case, I prefer to have the best performant OS possible. From what I see CachyOS seems to be a good replacement if that’s what you are looking at (I, will migrate to that in the future, unfortunately I’m not using Linux for the time being due to a lack of time to play around with the OS, Windows may be bad, but it has the highest compatibility for the programs I currently use).
Anyway, I liked that CL had “Linux” in it’s name! It made me feel I was using a true Linux distro! Haha, CachyOS on the other hand… well, not a bad name, but I would prefer something like Cachy Linux 
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Anyway, that’s my two cents, I will likely do a migration to CachyOS and see how the Arch world is, CachyOS will probably become the new #1 Linux distro in performance.
I’ve been thinking about this, probably gonna wait a month or two before switching to something else.
No other distro probably has the blend of features CL has to offer, but whilst CL has its drawbacks, overall, the level of out of box performance with minimal fuss is highest in CL.
Not to mention autospec, build from source without going through most of dependency hell since it "auto-magically’ pulls all needed deps needed for building the program and containerizes it away from your system so as to not bloat it with unneeded dev-pkgs.
A not so popular program with not many people building? Give it to autospec and 7 times out of 10 it’ll figure it out and you just make install-local the resulting RPMs which just seamlessly integrate with your system. If you brick your system? swupd repair -Y and you’re back.
But with the current status quo, I’m gonna have to give it up. I hope a CVE doesn’t come out soon whilst I mourn
EDIT: it’s also the reason I’m allergic to most flatpaks but wat do
Ikey Doherty contributed to CL, as well as Peter O’Connor @sunnyflunk, then started SerpentOS which now became AerynOS
Intel should have offered them a permanent position, but that never happened.
Aeryn and Solus both use stateless which is the biggest plus.
I was thinking of bazzite a day ago, but thanks for the recommendations. Will be testing them soon
I only know Peter through Github and this forum, but Ikey was most definitely an Intel employee, and contributed greatly to the Clear Linux Desktop when that was still a focus.
I never knew…
But it was obvious the desktop ran very smooth in those days.
Bluefish and BlendOS look interesting too… More distro hopping soon
