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Are we allowed to ask for recommendations here?
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The KDE spin of Fedora could be a good option if you want to avoid Canonical. KDE is also Wayland, though probably less touchscreen oriented than GNOME (which you can install on Fedora obviously, but a requirement to install a DE is not the most noob-friendly)
I'm gonna disagree on both counts.
I run fedora on my desktop and a bunch of laptops and have done so for years; I would never recommend it to a beginner, or even do the install and all the laborious post-install steps and then hand it over.
Plasma is closer to a standard desktop paradigm, but it has its stupid choices that aren't welcome on a laptop - FOUR finger gestures, really? why?! also, it's way too configurable so it's super-easy to fuck up something without an easy way to reset it.
so, both the options you mentioned are natural progressions for an intermediate user, someone who started with an easy option like Ubuntu + Gnome, and then progressed because they don't need the kiddie wheels no more; but not as first distro.
This comment has got me in a spin. Isn't GNOME the standard DE of fedora workstation?