Idk if I would necessarily recommend this for other beginners like myself, but Fedora was last on my list of stuff to try and after working through some initial gripes with dnf/copr, it really grew on me. Didn't end up enjoying GNOME so went to work on sorting out Hyprland. First time using Wayland, but the performance increase has been really noticeable.

Anyway, the goodies:

term: Alacritty browser: Waterfox file manager: Nautilus launcher: rofi resource monitor: htop music: spotify-tui with cava visualizer text editor: nano because change is scary