Agreed. I actually run Fedora (and have since Core 1 in 2003). I’m in IT and have been running RH or Fedora since 1993 or so. I can understand why people don’t like it, based on some comments I have heard. However, I feel it’s the best distro out there. I’ve tried dozens of different ones, and keep coming back to Fedora.
I also run RHEL on a work laptop. In fact, I am using it right now. Solid and easy to maintain .... if you know a little about system administration. Not for those new to linux though.
My bump for easiest distro for newbies is Mint.
Fedora at home, Ubuntu with Gnome Shell at work (since Fedora isn’t an option there). That gives me the UI I’m used to and I’m with those that don’t like Unity.
Can’t get used to apt-get/apt-cache though - and below that layer prefer rpm to dpkg - but I guess I can muddle through all of that.