Maybe consider using CachyOS and hardening it. That's what I do, and it works well for my needs. Content creators such as myself use CachyOS quite a lot, and it's popular (the most popular on DistroWatch) with people like me.

Why?

ran pop for a bit, switched to ZorinOS, thinking about fedora next

one of the atomic distros?

You just opened the best-Linux-distro-argument can of worms, and you can’t put those worms back in the can.

Secureblue is an amazing Fedora atomic option. It's been my go to for a few years now.

I fucking hated pop and all the tile bs switched to mint really like it

Been running Pop! 22.04 for about 2+ years now and just started kicking the tires on Pop! 24.02 with Cosmic. 22.04 no complaints. 24.02 too early to tell. Getting comfortable with new interfaces takes time. I was a little disappointed that GParted doesn't work with Cosmic but that's not a show s...

I have been using fedora for 6 months now and is working great! Whats wrong with Pop?