In the very early days, of course Red Hat was one of the distros I started with (I did Slackware, too, but that was a bit much at the time).
Nowadays I just stay away from Red Hat.
I also was pleasantly surprised with Pop!_OS. My biggest complaint is the name. Everything else about it, if you're into a DE that is minimally intrusive, is very nice.
On Arch I'm running KDE Plasma which also quite nice.