I tried Fedora a few months back, (as I wanted a specific kernel), but I found it required a lot more tweaking and configuring than Ubunutu or Mint or Manjaro. It felt like Linux was 7 or 8 years ago.
collyw, if someone is new to Linux I would also suggest them to use Ubuntu or Mint. But, as you start using it at some point of time you may want to tweak your system like you wanted(given that you've bandwidth and motivation to do so). It's about that time, most novice to advance sysadmins/users would want to use something like Fedora or Arch.