I tried mint a couple years ago and was unimpressed same with popOS.

Nobara instantly felt good, maybe its just Plasma KDE but I didnt have any issues

Infact I got my brother a video capture card from Ali Express and it wouldnt work in windows in his PC running windows, drivers said they were installed working and I plopped it in my rig runnin Nobara and it instantly worked. Literally just happened lmfao