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I use fedora for the nice OOTB experience, but if there's issues with parts of the hardware - I try Ubuntu. And if it works, I just install it.
Life's too short to deal with hardware blobs.
If anything shouldn't Ubuntu not work? Fedora runs the regular kernel while Ubuntu runs the Ubuntu kernel
In my experience, ubuntu seems to support a few more wifi cards OOTB. And for me that is an essential feature - I don't want to deal with getting the network up without access to the internet. I still experience Fedora to be smoother as a desktop though.