Ubuntu was maybe not a good choice to start with. I installed it recently to find that it runs old kernals and old versions of software. i.e. OBS was a few versions behind.
https://9to5linux.com/you-can-now-install-linux-kernel-6-1-o...
Apparently, the kernels are not signed, though, so secure boot must be disabled to run it.
It is however quite easy to migrate to a 5.19 using hwe packages in Ubuntu but I don't think they ever shipped 6.x for jammy
I am using it on a desktop, not a laptop, so I can't attest to laptop hardware support. Desktop hardware support (a cobbled-together PC) was great and everything just worked without installing drivers.
Everything just works. The level of polish is very high. The window manager supports tiling in a way that is extremely easy to use.
I installed windows on the same machine and windows is a disaster these days. I was chasing drivers, and never felt like I'd had them all properly installed. I regularly would end up with the Windows OS in a bad state and have to reinstall it
[1] https://fedoramagazine.org/lenovo-fedora-now-available/
[2] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/configurator/cto/index.html?bun...
If you are here for the whole Linux experience Manjaro might be a good option. Based on arch, rolling release but relatively stable for that.
I would avoid smaller distros. Not because they are all bad. But because it's so easy to fix issues if you can just append 'Fedora XX' in Google and get it solved
Ubuntu LTS is good for servers IMO. But the user systems are unnecessary painful for plenty of reasons starting from the default driver support down to Ubuntu specific configurations you would never know without Google and Stack overflow.