- Fedora makes very minimal changes to downstream. The gnome experience on fedora is the experience the devs intended, for better or worse.
- It often experiments with new technologies. It was the first to ship pulseaudio out of box. And then again for pipewire. And if it wasn’t the first to install wayland by default, it probably was the first to stop shipping XOrg out of box.
- It doesn’t install snaps instead of native packages when you run rpm install
- It’s also Linus Torvald’s distro of choice if that’s worth anything