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I actually thing that Fedora is your best bet here. Especially if you really need Red Hat based.
I personally (and professionally) use Debian/Ubuntu based most of the time. I've tried Fedora several times over the last few years, but it just never sit right with me, especially the package manager and how much it sticks to GNOME stuff, even with its KDE spin.
I've been trying to get into RHEL based out of curiosity.
Isn't the package manager the same on CentOS/RHEL and Fedora? I mean, they are all rpm based distributions. OpenSUSE is also rpm based btw.
That is true, RHEL and Fedora both uses dnf. This is probably why I'm having a hard time getting into RHEL.
Meanwhile, OpenSUSE uses zypper which is different from dnf. In fact some .rpm packages are incompatible between the two.