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I used Fedora on my laptop for like 4 years. It came with gnome, and was very stable. I didn't know a lot about Linux at the time, but it treated me well.
Eventually, I was learning graphics and the mesa drivers in fedora's repos were lacking specific OGL support I wanted to try out. I tried installing mesa from source, but it didn't go very smoothly.
This is when I learned about arch's rolling release model. I ran antergos for a while, then manjaro, and now endeavor, and more recently I've heard arch has a fancy installer wizard so I might just do that next.
I would still recommend Fedora (or Mint) as someone's first go at Linux. I don't think you need to try arch until you know why you're using it.
If you are on endeavour, I don't think there's much point jumping to plain Arch if you are all setup and comfortable. I say this as a pure Arch user 😛 Not much will change for you, you'll just be pissing away a day to setup everything you've already setup on endeavour again.
Yeah, it wouldn't be for no reason, I still have a desktop on Manjaro that I've been meaning to swap to endeavorOS. But I pretty much just use arch flavors rather than arch because they're quicker to install lol.