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- Vanilla DEs: every spin provides a clean desktop, how the devs intended it.
- Great update schedule: the 6 months release cycle provides a great compromise between stability (how often stuff changes), reliability (how often stuff breaks) and freshness. A rolling release (like Tumbleweed) downloads many GBs of downloads each week and feels like a testing ground with stuff often not working that smoothly, while Debian for example is super stale.
- Community based and backed by RH (devs and $$$)
- Sane defaults for me
- Their immutable variants (Silverblue, etc.) are fantastic as well and a joy to use.
- And more