[smt88]

Fedora's latest release rocks. Fedora used to have stability issues here or there because it's the cutting-edge version of RHEL, but I think it's unlikely you'd run into those in everyday usage with mainstream hardware. It shouldn't be less stable than Ubuntu.

[na85]

Is the recommended way to switch between major versions of Fedora still to wipe and reinstall?

For a long time back in the early teen releases there were no sane upgrade paths which pushed me to Debian.

[verbatim]

No, there are now fully integrated system update tools that handle this smoothly.