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The issue is that the developer of some software that I want to work with uses Fedora. It would make life so much easier if we both used Fedora. I will now likely investigate other virtual machines that will let me share the clipboard and drag/drop.

Of course I understand and it is always up to you, but as I said the workings are the same for almost all Linux distros, even most of the packages are basically the same. Unless you are going to be doing low level OS work then you would need to stay constant.