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When comparing MX-17 vs openSUSE Tumbleweed, the Slant community recommends MX-17 for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux distributions for Xfce?” MX-17 is ranked 5th while openSUSE Tumbleweed is ranked 17th.
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Pros
Pro Comes with a lot of goodies
Pro Friendly yet very configurable
Pro Lightning fast and stable
Pro Speed, encryption, drivers come with.
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 No systemd
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.