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How come Fedora is never mentioned in these sorts of posts? It's really beginner friendly.
I daily drive Fedora and if I had to guess, it's because you need to manually enable non free software repos and features. If you don't know what to look for, you can easily get frustrated by things like poor hardware acceleration in browsers (due to some codecs being nonfree and hence not available OOTB) and worse driver availability. IIRC you need to manually add the repos, you can't just toggle something in settings.
Other distros tend to bundle these things (or give you a direct toggle).
Yep. This is a great answer, and the cure for it is to search “fedora after install” to get a list of the most common things you should install update and tweak.