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A real shame. I do think there are other OSes with the same level of polish as Fedora, but not ones as "normie-friendly" to recommend to people.
It may come across as piling on now that there's blood in the water, but quality control in Fedora has slipped recently. The update to 43 caused me some mild inconvenience (compared to a seamless experience in the past) and when my brother did it this week we ended up reinstalling, only to discover TWO bugs in the installation process (one caused by improper handling of Btrfs subvolumes, one caused by a bug somewhere in the nouveau-mesa-Gtk pipeline, neither with useful error messages).
These recent experiences have given me some reservations aside from the politics of IBM/Red Hat.
Yeah tbf I only use Fedora for VMs and to recommend to non-technical people so I'm not the best judge of its quality. But my experiences of it have been smooth + no complaints from the non-technical folks I've recommended Fedora to who have gone through and installed it.
The other OSes that come to mind when I think of well-crafted OSes are Alpine Linux, OpenBSD, and maybe Void Linux, but here "well-crafted" does not mean they appeal to the same audience or fill the same niche as Fedora haha. I guess I can see how Debian is doing these days for next time a non-technical person asks me for a Linux distro rec.
This has been my experience more or less for the past decade. I moved to Gentoo on my desktop in 2020 so I could have better control of all the bells and whistles (trying to balance web dev, game dev, ham radio, astronomy, CAD/CAM, GIS, and gaming on one machine), but up to today Fedora has been what I run on anything I don't want to fuck around with (like a laptop that I want to stow for a couple months, update the night before a trip, and not deal with any bullshit when I should be packing). I've also set it up for a few coworkers in addition to my brother, and they've been fine. I was truly shocked to hit so many problems in the installer this go-around. It is very uncharacteristic of my experience overall.