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I might actually, I have someone dropping by a spare laptop they don't want in a few weeks and I was going to toss xubuntu on it kind of by default, but maybe not.
I'm running Aeon on my main laptop for I think two years now and it's so nice to just have an updated system automatically after you reboot without doing anything. However Aeon is still in RC stage so there are occasional bugs mainly related to disk encryption since automated tests are not yet implemented. But there are many other options.