Linus famously uses Fedora, which inspired me to try it many years ago. I've found myself consistently returning to it ever since. Don't get me wrong, I love Debian's reliability, but its packages quickly become outdated after each release.

For me, Fedora strikes the perfect balance between Arch's bleeding-edge approach and Debian's stability—a sweet spot that keeps me current with updates and features without sacrificing system reliability.

Also, I still had to manually set up HEVC in VLC (of course)—not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that—but the principle remains about the third-party repositories and ease of setup.

Here's a screenshot from the welcome screen—one click to enable. Very nice.