Bazzite is an excellent spin on Fedora Atomic, gaming ready. It will usually get mentioned over plain Fedora

Yeah I'm incredibly impressed with Fedora. Rides the fine line of cutting edge, without tipping over, any time something matures enough to adopt, so it's still stable—which means I've found the typical Linux faffing about is optional if I want to do it, rather than mandatory, which isn't always the case for distros that adopt cutting edge sooner.

That said, distros that pioneer new stuff quickly can be fun in their own right, but right now I'm just happy to have that balance.

Another thing I've found is that it makes tinkering easier any time I want to try something new, since the whole distro tends to be on newer but still stable packages, so there's less breakage. That isn't always the case on Debian based distros which can sometimes be a little too conservative to make adopting newer things simple, or bleeding edge distros where things tend to break just by virtue of being bleeding edge.

It's quite literally the Goldilocks distro for me and my needs right now.

I daily drive Fedora and if I had to guess, it's because you need to manually enable non free software repos and features. If you don't know what to look for, you can easily get frustrated by things like poor hardware acceleration in browsers (due to some codecs being nonfree and hence not available OOTB) and worse driver availability. IIRC you need to manually add the repos, you can't just toggle something in settings.

Other distros tend to bundle these things (or give you a direct toggle).

Nobora and bazzite run on fedora but have lots if gaming optimizations over standard fedora