Starting with Fedora as a daily driver? And other thoughts

Hi all, I have a couple questions around what distro should I use as my daily driver. Knowing full well that in the end the choice depends on me, I still feel like I fell down the rabbit hole and am spoiled for choice haha.

I installed Mint Cinnamon on my laptop and have been tinkering these last few weeks, even ricing it a little. Still, I feel like I'm starting to grow out of Mint, if it makes sense? Don't get me wrong, it's a great distro for a complete beginner like me, but it leaves me wanting more. That said, I feel like Fedora KDE might be the next best step. I really like the KDE Plasma UI as opposed to Cinnamon, and Fedora still allows me to continue tinkering on a stable distro.

Here are some of my other thoughts and considerations for other distros:

• Bazzite: Fedora derivative, very stable(?). I'm not someone who likes troubleshooting an issue for 5 hours if something goes wrong, so it being immutable works in my favor. That being said, I want there to be an optional learning curve so I can mature as a Linux user, which is why I'm now opting for Fedora.
• CachyOS: On the other side of the spectrum. Seems to be marketed as Arch for beginners. At some point I want to experiment with Hyprland or i3 and would like to try my hand at Arch, so this seemed like a good starting point. Iffy on the rolling release aspect, not super keen on troubleshooting if an update breaks something (same as above).
• Nobara: Still researching this one, but seems to be another Fedora derivative. Heard it being promoted as "Bazzite but better?" Feel free to shoot this claim down if it's totally inaccurate.

In the case of Fedora, or any other distro that I end up choosing, I will be dual booting with Windows. I'm partial to just setting the boot priority to automatically boot to Linux, since I'll only be using Win11 on the off chance I want to play Halo, but if it's better to use Grub or any other boot manager I can do that. Is btrfs the best option for snapshots, or can I set the drive to ext4 and it will still work well along my other drives?