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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.
For me, for some packages, only the RPM works, and others only the flatpak works, and yet others still both work, or none. Seems highly dependant on something but tbh I'm too new to know if it's the packages themselves, something to do with dependencies, hardware, or whatever else.
I'd argue the "selling" point of Pop!_OS are their non-vanilla GNOME features.
That's what I hear Pop people say.