I have switched between Mandrake and Red Hat/Fedora over the years. Red Hat has done a lot of good things with this release, but I find it lacking as a distro. There still is no graphical menu editor in GNOME. As previously mentioned, there are a lot of automatic processes running daily that are quite annoying. Also, you need to download a lot of the multimedia stuff from third party repositories. For a home user, I think Mandrake is better and more user-friendly than Fedora. Afterall, Fedora is a test bed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.