For a laptop, I’d stay away from Fedora and/or RedHat based stuff due to what’s being forced on those distros (Wayland, PipeWire, systemd, etc.), and instead, use something like Linux Mint, Pop_OS! (both Ubuntu-based), CachyOS, vanilla Arch Linux, or Artix Linux [systemd-free Arch] (Arch-based).
Now, I get it, most of it’s systemd, PipeWire and Wayland, but you have the option to keep them or use X11/XLibre, PulseAudio and JACK bridged, and for Artix, Void, MX, and some others, other PID1 such as S6, SysV-Init, Runnit, OpenRC, etc.
I think I’ve seen enough Linux distro elitism flamewars to spot an instigator in the wild…
This right here is how you get people to run away from Linux entirely.