re: I Hate The Person Linux Turns Me Into - I'm sorry, but you're holding it wrong.
I just saw this post about Linux
And... I have some opinions.
First up. Pretty much all of the problems you mentioned can be attributed to one single thing: You chose a bad distro.
If you're a beginner who does not want to faff around with tech, which trust me, i do get, do not use fedora.
Fedora is:
A. A distro that only didtributes free software.
This is your main problem.
'Free software', in this case means software that is open source and available to be modified and redistributed by anyone. Most things you want to use are not free software. For example, while vlc is free software, most of its codecs are not, so they're not included.
B. A cutting edge distro - it runs the newest versions of absolutely everything. This is great if you don't care when things break and just want the absolutely most recent version of everything, no matter how broken, but judging by your post, you're probably not one of those people.
C. A distro that expects you to know what you're doing - Flatpak is not exclusively a commandline app. There's distros where flatpak apps just show up in the regular appstore, like any other program. Fedora does not do this, because they expect you to want to use the commandline.
Essentially, as far as beginner distros go, fedora is the worst possible option you could have picked. - The solution to all of your problems just boils down to "Install Linux Mint instead".
This is the problem with Linux - You need to do research on which version to pick. The fact that there are so many distros is great for advanced users, because it means lots of choice. It is not great for beginner users because they will google something along the lines of "best gaming distro", find badly researched seo slop and get recommended something like fedora which is just categorically a bad choice for a beginner - It's a distro specifically for people that want to tinker, don't care if things break, and want to actively avoid using most of the software you wanted to install to the point where the distro goes out of it's way to make it harder.
So yeah. I'm sorry, you're holding it wrong. I don't like that this is how most people first experience linux, but it's just kind of how things are at the moment.
Just get linux mint.