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I'm going to recommend Fedora Workstation. The Gnome desktop is fantastic on a laptop with a touchpad, Fedora is very up to date without being unstable, and between Flatpak, the Fedora repos, and Copr, you're probably going to find everything you need.
The pain with Fedora is the short support cycle, so you have to reinstall/upgrade it every year.
That and dnf/yum stinks.
The upgrade is super seamless though. Basically bulletproof in my experience over many releases.
Yup, this. Started update via Gnome Software, walked away from my laptop to make some coffee, restarted when I came back and it was done. ^^
Gonna back this up as well, never had an issue for 5 concurrent releases
Is "upgrading" Fedora in the same sense as upgrading Ubuntu?
Technically yes, but it runs more smoothly in my experience. It's moving from version 38 to 39, for instance. Because the versions come out twice a year, though, it's less of a leap.
Pretty much yeah
Nah, mate. You upgrade twice a year. But it's been a smooth experience since about 34-ish. For me, it's been similar to just running a regular update (not exactly the same, but still not much of an issue).
And DNF is fine these days. You have to slightly tweak the config to allow for more simultaneous downloads and you're good. Plus DNF5 is on the horizon. I've played with it a bit, and even at this stage it's smooth and fast, just not feature complete.