Sadly, DNF5 and the new Anaconda installer didn’t make it to the party, in case you were wondering.
Fedora should be the default distro we recommend to beginners. Everything just works despite being up-to-date unlike Ubuntu. Still waiting for DNF5, though.
Flatpaks never worked for me though, last I tried was 38.
Also didn’t something happen in relation to some encoding?
Pop!_OS would be my recommendation, semi-rolling for sweet driver updates, Ubuntu based for easy searching (how to do x on Ubuntu) and Large software support.
I just remembered that Pop!_OS doesn’t ship with vanilla gnome, sadly, which degrades its position as a recommendation.
I’d argue the “selling” point of Pop!_OS are their non-vanilla GNOME features.
That’s what I hear Pop people saying.