For a desktop, Fedora is likely a better choice for most people because it offers more up-to-date software. How many times have you found yourself struggling to install something on Ubuntu because the version of some dependency in your package manager is out of date? That is much less common on a distro like Fedora (even less so on Arch Linux).
With bleeding edge comes instability though, so it's not all up-side. Personally, I've settled on Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite, which is an immutable version of Fedora. Basically, it gives me the best of both worlds: up-to-date software and stability. Since the system is immutable, it's really difficult to break it even if you try.
Another good, non-IBM alternative to that is OpenSuse Aeon/Kalpa/MicroOS. Or just Tumbleweed/Leap if you don't care about immutability.
You mean Bookworm? Packages are frozen though, so they have completely different use cases. I dislike RH so I wish there were other community controlled Linux distro with the same cadence as Fedora.
There is perhaps room for a new player to enter the market, but I think the correct path would be to direct that effort towards improving Debian as a whole. It's truly one of the greatest open source projects in existence.
With bleeding edge comes instability though, so it's not all up-side. Personally, I've settled on Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite, which is an immutable version of Fedora. Basically, it gives me the best of both worlds: up-to-date software and stability. Since the system is immutable, it's really difficult to break it even if you try.
Another good, non-IBM alternative to that is OpenSuse Aeon/Kalpa/MicroOS. Or just Tumbleweed/Leap if you don't care about immutability.