Aside from openSUSE (and GeckoLinux), I think an under-recognized option is Siduction.
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Even though I'm not a huge fan of canonical, Ubuntu and its derivatives are still pretty good.
I personally prefer Debian these days. Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, most software/support sites work just fine, but it's not so much "in the way" as Ubuntu.
And I have to say, the installer is very easy to use, especially if you already installed an OS before. Under half an hour.
Kubuntu is fine if you don't mind the direction that Canonicla is heading.
Moving from Ubuntu to a debian based distro makes sense - a lot of stuff is familliar. Base debian is fine, but MX is a little more friendly. They have a KDE image here: https://mxlinux.org/download-links/
Manjaro! I can't run the KDE version myself, but I have both heard and seen good things about it.
I've been using Manjaro with KDE for a few years now. It works smoothly, I never ran into any issues with it.
The pacman package manager is pretty nice, too, I found it faster and easier to use than apt-get, and the provided packages are always kept up-to-date. Updating the system (even installing a newer Linux kernel) is very simple and works reliably. So you always have the latest version of your apps, the kernel, and the DE.
In the rare occasion that a program is not available in the official repositories or the community-maintained AUR, you can also install snap or flatpak packages.
And since Manjaro is derived from Arch, you can use the Arch Wiki, which is very useful when you want to set up a database, use the android debug bridge, install another package manager, or do anything else less than trivial.
Have you looked at tumbleweed? I've been using it without major issues for a few years across different devices. Perfect integration with plasma, rolling but stable distro, built in rollback feature, it's great
TW with KDE has made me happy, it's crazy
I've been a long time user of Debian + Gnome, but I've recently been using Fedora KDE spin as my daily driver just to mix things up a bit. I'd say Fedora is on par with Ubuntu with not having to tinker too much. The only thing I think I've had to really intervene with is getting the Nvidia driver going. Everything else I use just works, and there are plenty of packages available in the repo(s) for anything I'm not building myself.