That slimbook afaik also comes with non-Fedora options. Fedora is developed by the community, so I wouldn’t worry too much, but, in case;

I asked about this before

tl:dr; if you care about it being beginner friendly, go for Linux Mint. if european & privacy is important, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

i’d also go for the GNOME one, that’s more customisable. KDE is a little more beginner friendly à la “less is more”.