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Does Fedora have cutting edge features, and what makes it so?

I saw [another post](https://linux.codidact.com/posts/282891/291351#answer-291351) recommend using Fedora if you want cutting edge features.

Is Fedora really a "cutting edge" distro?

I am not very familiar with Fedora, I know it's a community counterpart to RHEL and sometimes less tested new stuff goes into Fedora before going into RHEL, since they don't have to provide as much support for breakage in Fedora. Otherwise, given their packaging approach, I don't see why it would be any more "cutting edge" than say Debian Unstable or the  "testing" releases of other distros.

For a distro like Arch, it is clear why you would expect cutting edge-ness:

* Packagers do minimal testing and adaptations of newly released software, so they can release new package versions very quickly
* There is also AUR which has an even more minimal process so new versions can come out even faster
* Rolling release means they don't get slowed down by backwards compatibility
* Arch's philosophy and culture strongly favors using the latest version of everything

Is there any special thing like this about Fedora that ensures cutting edge features? Or is it just cutting edge relative to RHEL? For example, is there something like "a lot of new Linux features are developed at Red Hat first so they appear in Fedora before other distros adopt them"?

Fedora already has extensive documentation and active forums, and I'm sure the "long answer" is in there somewhere. I am looking for a shorter answer, no more than 3-5 paragraphs.