This isn't a distro thing, it's generally the Desktop Environment, though with the Surface devices, there is a custom kernel lots of people use that has some extra drivers for the rest of the hardware, so look for that. You can use it with any distro.

As far as the DE, Gnome has better general touch support over others right now, so it's probably going to give you the experience you're expecting. Every art app I've tried with a pen has great pressure support.