Agreed. Was being diplomatic with our OP in mind.
Nobara does work out of the box and surprisingly well. But itās kind of someoneās pet project or something. To download you have to agree to some āyou are not entitled to supportā legal prompt. The community behind it is not as helpful/nice as this community. So I guess it just depends on if op would ever want/need some help while tinkering. ymmvā¦ but keep in mind part of distro choice is the community support as well.
If youāre bored and looking to learn OS stuff, go left field and try something radical like OpenVMS 
This looks interesting. I will try to learn more about it.
In the meantime, Iām back on EndeavourOS after I wanted to do something that made me pull my hair and then I found that it was 1000x easier on Arch because of the AUR. I told ya I will be back on this 
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What were you trying to do and on which Linux distribution?
Fedora. I was trying to get TumerinJRE 17 cause some mod for Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 required it. I couldnāt figure out how to get it going nicely through dnf, so I just gave up and came back.
The grass is always greener on the purple side of the fence.
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Cachy or Tumbleweed
While my PCās daily driver is, and will remain, EndeavourOS KDE Plasmaā¦ my laptop has been running Fedora 40 Gnome 46. Takes a bit of configuring, but once set up itās really good. I even made a document for my personal after-install configuration. Really liking it a lot. Iām learning to like Gnome, though my heart still belongs to KDE Plasma.
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Another thing to try if you are really bored is to try out some of the more obsure FOSS projects like Hakiku or eplore so older OS like Windows 3.1 or DOS?
I find this more exciting/amsusing than trying out different Linux distros these days lets you not only see how computers have āevolvedā but also different approaches to how things are done
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try nixos cuz itās different.
try cachyos cus it looks cool as shit.
try gentoo cuz memes, and bragging rights.
try qubes cuz itās secure as shit
i suppose you could try fedora too, i have, it wasnāt really anything special though, it was like a less bad ubuntu.
I plan to do that sometime during this year on bare metal. I got a machine just laying out. Maybe I install DOS on it or something equally silly. I want to explore old hardware and software in general, though, but money isnāt that plentiful.
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Iāve never been able to get attached to Gnome as much as say Xfce or Cinnamon. But i too have the Kde bug. 
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Or write your own (Linux) shell, you really learn a lot that way. But you donāt normally run into that stuff until masters
so LFS?
I used to really like XFCE, but man Plasma is just too awesome!
Linux distros are just zodiac signs for nerds.
I love the purple zodiac sign. It just works, and nothing else matters. 
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100% dude. Linux distros and keyboard switches 
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Itās a fun exercise, they usually have you expand on it to do memory/file management: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/grr/SystemsProgrammingBook/Book/Chapter5-WritingYourOwnShell.pdf
Hop right on over to EOS. Itās got the purple magic!
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IDK why no one likes tumbleweed, itās almost like arch, just more stable because things get to stable a bit later. Also it is so well integrated with btrfs. Though I only tried it in a vm, but it would be the next one for me if I get bored with arch. I just donāt like hopping.