I ditched Red Flag Linux for various reasons: No scanner support, difficult (or impossible?) updating, and other reasons just turned me against it.
Fedora Linux was a fairly important experience for me; there, I learned about updating, packaging, partition methods, and uses of terminal.
My experience was based on Fedora 9 and 10, respectively.
YUM and the default package manager seems to make life simpler, but alas, YUM tends to fail when you install certain packages or updates (this glitch persisted considerably.)
Display was an issue there: Blinking screen was pretty common; although a trick fixed it.
There were loads of wallpapers back in old Fedora 9, but I can´t get them anymore. As far as wallpapers are concerned, now I load the wallpapers from different distros and load them to an USB drive.
Since Fedora gave the option of installing in Gnome, KDE, XFCE, and LXDE, I gained a little experience in all of those platforms, but I used Gnome for the most part, XFCE only occasionally, KDE and LXDE, almost never used. It sounds like Gnome was the most supported platform of the time (and perhaps still is); Fedora XFCE had a rather cool plank, a weather forecast plugin, and a few cool Windows decoration.
Selinux was one reason I kept using Fedora for quite some time; security was an issue, and Selinux reports quite a bit of attacks.
The iso of Fedora was huge back than: up to 4G, and it almost took 1-2 hours to install. I wasn´t unused to long installation, just now it is inconvenient.
Since both Ubuntu and Fedora upgraded their memory requirements to at least 768MB of RAM, my meager 512MB ram limits me to use of lightweight alternatives.
