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MX-17 vs Salient OS
When comparing MX-17 vs Salient OS, 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 Salient OS is ranked 25th.
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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 Customized and great performance
Its really good customized, and the performance was the best of my laptop 2 gb ram 50 Gb ROM.
Pro Fast, Nvidia versions
No need to install Nvidia, detected out of the box, blazingly fast.
Pro Higly customizable to tiny details via KDE settings and preinstalled Kvantum engine
Super fast and stable. Dolphin root restrictions can be solved with yust few clicks. Easy installation via Calamares , and preinstalled packages are awesome. Salient OS is a huge competitor to Manjaro both KDE & XFCE.
Cons
Con No systemd
Con Dead Distro
There have been no updates since 2021.
Con No torrent downloads
The download from Soundforge takes too long. If there was a torrent, like other Arch based distros, this wouldn't be a problem.