Not sure why fedora is not considered an easy distro really. Seems pretty easy to me. If the criteria is only "large array of software/apps without having to us

Not sure why fedora is not considered an easy distro really. Seems pretty easy to me. If the criteria is only "large array of software/apps without having to use the command line" I'm not sure this excludes fedora and I recall from the times I used ubuntu I had to use the command line a couple of times to get the rickety mess that canonical has made from falling over. One example is their systemd services calling their old bash init scripts without proper error handling. Maybe that is better now but I don't expect quality from an organization that thought it is a good idea in the first place. In my experience (maybe 5 years now, switched from gentoo) fedora is quite solid and well put together. I have yet to come across something that doesn't just work and release upgrades also work well consistently which is more than I can say for my experience with ubuntu. My feeling is that ubuntu goes out of it's way to do things differently - and then end up with some real horror shows below the surface.