I've been running Fedora for several years now, after more than ten years of Debian and Ubuntu before that. I don't know if it's my favourite but I have no ser

I've been running Fedora for several years now, after more than ten years of Debian and Ubuntu before that. I don't know if it's my favourite but I have no serious complaints, except for the GUI software updater that's a bit over-zealous about rebooting after every minor update. And perhaps the general trend of getting updates all the time (a kernel every week?), but I guess that's just Linux nowadays. The last time I bought a new laptop and made a fresh OS install I turned to Fedora for a few reasons: 0. Linux was almost a given because of familiarity, relative ease of setup and use, and flexibility. Linux doesn't seem to generally install painlessly on Macs, so if I had bought one and ended up not liking the OS, switching wouldn't have been a given. Also, I like to have my OS open source. I also have Windows but I definitely prefer *nix for development, and I'm also more familiar with that. 1. Easy (one-click) system-wide encryption in the installer. I think Ubuntu had somewhat more limited disk encryption options in the installer at the time, such as only home directory encryption or something. This is probably different nowadays. 2. Ubuntu was heavy on Unity at the time, and I never really liked the UI. Of course other desktops were available and easy to install on Ubuntu but I thought they might become second-class citizens. There was also something else about the latest Ubuntu releases at the time that made me feel unconvinced but I can't remember what it was. 3. Fedora is still mainstream enough that it's still easy-ish to find e.g. prepackaged or supported proprietary software in case I need that for something. Of course it's generally possible to install just about anything that runs on Linux on any distro, but I prefer to avoid the hassle. Usually Ubuntu comes first (e.g. Spotify only provides debs) but if there's a second, it tends to be Red Hat based distros. Also, while a new version twice a year is perhaps a bit more often than I'd like, at least most of the packages are pretty recent. So, basically... a relatively hassle-free and mainstream Linux distro for someone who had become too lazy to go through much trouble or to get too far from the comfort zone on a daily driver, but who wanted something other than Ubuntu at the time.