Are you sure you are not confusing Fedora with RHEL (an excellent server OS for the corporate environment btw)?
Anyway, after years of using different distros (mainly the Debian and Ubuntu family of things and Arch) on different boxes I tried the Fedora KDE spin on my main desktop - mainly because the out of the box KDE 4 experience had been a bit underwhelming on various distros and I got tired of accidentally breaking stuff on Arch due to applying some careless updates. For me Fedora offers the optimum when it comes to the balance between stability and bleeding edge and the availability of packages. Rarely when things break they also get fixed promptly, third party rpms and repos are pretty decent and it's popular enough that even some proprietary stuff (mainly Steam and Sublime Text in my case) are easy to run and well supported. Really excited also to try out Wayland with Plasma soon. For a development box it has been a good choice, lot of the experience applies well also to RHEL and CentOS servers and doesn't suffer from weird decisions by the project maintenance.
Anyway, after years of using different distros (mainly the Debian and Ubuntu family of things and Arch) on different boxes I tried the Fedora KDE spin on my main desktop - mainly because the out of the box KDE 4 experience had been a bit underwhelming on various distros and I got tired of accidentally breaking stuff on Arch due to applying some careless updates. For me Fedora offers the optimum when it comes to the balance between stability and bleeding edge and the availability of packages. Rarely when things break they also get fixed promptly, third party rpms and repos are pretty decent and it's popular enough that even some proprietary stuff (mainly Steam and Sublime Text in my case) are easy to run and well supported. Really excited also to try out Wayland with Plasma soon. For a development box it has been a good choice, lot of the experience applies well also to RHEL and CentOS servers and doesn't suffer from weird decisions by the project maintenance.