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Fedora, great blend of bleeding edge and stability. Plus Linus uses it, so what better praise could you get.
Can definitely recommend Fedora too. Software updates are at a good pace, and the system has a lot of polish all around. For example, all you need to do for updates is to press "update" in Discover and it'll do everything for you, applying on reboot for stability. Most things "just work".
Discover is a KDE thing, not a fedora thing. Not fedora exclusive.
It is a KDE thing, but Fedora is the distro on which it works best. On a lot of other distros it often runs into problems.
I can attest to that. It's remarkable on how few distros updating through Discover actually works reliably. I always update through the terminal because at least that works. I've noticed this issue on Kubuntu (apt), Debian (apt), and OpenSUSE (zypper). I think these issues are related to the PackageKit integration.