Centos for Desktop???
Even if they were not killing Centos would be nice for you to run in all type of possible headcaches 
If you want play and plug stick with Debian based distros, being Ubuntu one the easiest ones that is always in the forefront, but then you have a lot of other distros that built on top of Uubuntu.
I like my life simple, thus I stick with Ubuntu, because… it just works