Yeah—I understand that Fedora is more for the experienced user. Since I’ve never used anything else (for the long term), it took me a while to figure that out. :)
Fedora is RHEL’s officially unofficial little brother. I had to go to Ubuntu on account of Fedora’s feverish upgrade timelines. I was happy to see Canonical doing LTS on Ubuntu distros. That makes me happy.
That being said, I’m sort of on the fence with Mint. They’re a decent distro, but I’ve become such an Ubuntu fanboy that I can’t imagine going to another flavor.
I do support KDE but prefer Gnome.