I'm using Fedora right now, I've tooled around with others. I have a love hate relationship with Gnome 3, frequently contemplate the glory of an overly customized i3 or sway environment but not the amount of time I would put into making it. At the end of the day, I don't mind using Fedora with Gnome on my desktop since that's the self built toy anyway. Ubuntu is out of the question, too many anti-community decisions in that camp IMO (sorry if that's your camp).

I've gotten to a point in life now though where there are some things that I need to "just work". I used android devices for 10 years until I was forced to use an iPhone 6s at work and well now I happily own an iPhone 7 in my personal life. The UX made me go from disliking having a pocket computer to being ambivalent, net win. But having an iPhone and two Linux machines is inconvenient as hell and I'm really looking to get that laptop to just work now too.