As a Fedora user, I find it more polished than Ubuntu, Debian, and Mint (the other distros I've used). Newcomers shouldn't be dissuaded by this "bleeding edge" description.
I guess on some level we just prefer what we're used to.
But I seriously wonder about people who run Fedora desktops though. I installed Fedora 36 two days ago to try it again, and it's unusable. The scaling options are 100%, 200%, 300%, and 400%. I have a 43" 4k screen, so around 120dpi. 100% is too small, 200% is way too big. And gnome settings doesn't even have font size options. What the fuck.
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"
Now that most applications are supporting Wayland this is less of an issue than it used to be.
It's not suprising if some level of indirection on top of it broke it in some environments though. Perhaps it has something to do with gnome 3? It works with gnome 2, kde, and all the minimalist window managers I've tried.
None of those try to "scale framebuffer" though, whatever that means. If it means what it sounds like, whoever implemented it is incompetent.
And I wonder about people who can't figure this part out.
> and now it's the unusable default gnome interface (so bad Red Hat made a shitty gnome 2 clone for enterprize customers).
Kinda odd how it's the most popular Linux desktop and you are the one that can't figure it out and also the one calling it shit and unusable.
Seems more like a personal problem than a Gnome problem.
They seem to do go a good job updating major components for latest-1 release: kernel, Firefox, etc.
However, I noticed that say Chromium updates are not as fast or at latest version. So using Fedora that way might not be best choice.
To update to the latest Fedora versions I run a shell command and 30 minutes later I have the new version and I can hardly tell the difference.
TL;DR Most things are just "a little nicer" and a "little more sane" I found.
EDIT: I also run i3 so I'm not part of the gnome(n..m) "problems" etc. Can really recommend it !