I really like the goals that Aeon aspires to, it is one of the most interesting distros to me at this moment in time. But I’d suggest not using it at this point in time if you felt Fedora or traditional OpenSUSE distros were too complex, or the community support too limited, or the software selection insufficient.
Because:
- In my experience, Aeon is dead simple if you change nothing about your OS it has a steeper (and not very well documented) learning curve when (almost inevitably) do need to change something. Using an immutable linux distro has its advantages but we are in the early days, and compared to a traditional distro it requires a lot more conscious thought and informed decisions by the user compared to a traditional distro. With time that will change, but right now I think immutable linux distros are solidly in the early-adoption/experimental phase.
- Documentation is really sparse at the moment, it has been improving a bit, but is still pretty barebones, and there isn’t a large community to fall back on for help (yet)
- Aeon is not officially considered ready for general use (by its developer). Plenty of people (including myself) are already either using or testing Aeon, it isn’t unstable, but I’d tend to agree with its developer that its not yet quite ready for primetime.
One other thing Aeon does have going for it is a really active and involved developer who often answers questions and engages with the community.