Yeah I've looked into other distributions. So far Kubuntu fits the bill just fine for me.
I don't have enough spare time to mess around with troubleshooting issues, so stability is what I'm looking for and the Ubuntu flavors provide just that without being too outdated. And they provide 3rd party drivers out of the box.
I hear Fedora might be a good alternative, but I heard it's a bit more difficult to find 3rd party support for hardware.