When comparing Linux Mint Xfce Edition vs SliTaz, the Slant community recommends SliTaz for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux distributions for misanthropes?” SliTaz is ranked 78th while Linux Mint Xfce Edition is ranked 107th. The most important reason people chose SliTaz is:
The core liveCD is only 35 megabytes. The boot-from-internet option fits on a floppy.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Beautiful implementation of the Xfce desktop
Pro Everything works out of the box
Xfce is very intuitive and straightforward and Mint is very polished and stable.
Pro Most intuitively Windows-like
Pro Works on old and new hardware
Linux Mint XFCE can successfully run on all kinds of machines - for example, on a 2007, 2011, 2015, 2016 desktop PCs.
It can also be installed on a USB drive and you could boot it on all of your computers.
Pro Very stable
Pro Good community support
Pro Built on Debian
Pro 5 year long term support
Pro One of the smallest distributions with desktop GUI
The core liveCD is only 35 megabytes. The boot-from-internet option fits on a floppy.
Pro Very fast
Pro Can add desktop effects
SliTaz has a feature called "Desktop Effects" which can add shadow or fade effects to windows.
Pro Very customizable
SliTaz is very customizable. You can programatically edit and change anything you want on how the OS looks or behaves.
Cons
Con Late on updates
Con Broken installer
Con Install instructions are in French
When first booting SliTaz from a USB or from a Live CD, the installation instructions are in French.
Con Not much variety as to available applications
SliTaz does not have as many applications in its repositories as the bigger distros such as Ubuntu.