When comparing Linux Mint Xfce Edition vs openSUSE Tumbleweed, the Slant community recommends Linux Mint Xfce Edition for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux distributions for Xfce?” Linux Mint Xfce Edition is ranked 2nd while openSUSE Tumbleweed is ranked 17th.
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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 Stable
Tumbleweed is stable enough to use every day. Updates are OpenQA tested to ensure stability before being released for Tumbleweed. Bleeding edge untested software can be tried using OpenSUSE factory.
Pro Easy installation and cutting edge apps
Pro A large amount of software
Pro Tumbleweed + OpenSUSE Build Service
Pro Good selection of preinstalled applications
Pro User friendly + Good support
Active and friendly user community, updates come fast
Cons
Con Late on updates
Con Broken installer
Con Little / no third-party support
Like it or not, most third parties don't want to deal with less-popular distros. So most of them only support Ubuntu LTS and those versions of RHEL/CentOS that are still supported.