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You may want to try Pop!_OS [1], it's based on Ubuntu but AFAIK includes NVIDIA's proprietary drivers out of the box, which is basically the "better out of the box experience" you're asking for.

That said, I think there are legal issues around licensing with doing such a thing, which is why most distros avoid including them in the first place.

1: https://pop.system76.com/

did you install the proprietary nvidia driver ? I think ubuntu makes you install it once logged in. Nvidia won't be decent without the proprietary driver in the near term.

I ran Ubuntu Mate on a Raspberry Pi 4 for over three years as my daily driver. Mostly programming, browsing (also Youtube) and image editing. I even did some light video editing on it. I ended up with Mate eventually, other options except Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS didn't work fast enough.

P.S. Literally every desktop environment on Linux looks better than Windows, if you'd ask me.

Shocked? It's been this way since the very beginning. It's the byproduct of not having vertical integration anywhere in the stack