[larntz]

Have you considered Fedora?

I recently moved from Arch to Fedora and I have all the same up to date vanilla packages without having to do any real work.

[BiteCode_dev]

I tried so many distros. None of them fit the bill for a pro laptop.

I don't want to move out of ubuntu based distros, they get too many things right.

I'd rather try Elementary, Pop OS, Xubuntu, etc.

[larntz]

I have heard great things about PopOS but haven't tried it personally. Hopefully you find the right distro for you.

[0des]

Go for it! Those are great choices, you'll do fine.