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Can you list the distros that you tried?
Monitor handling will mostly depend on the desktop environment and X11/Wayland, but different distros will ship with different defaults for these.
Ubuntu and Nobara both come with the GNOME desktop environment, which uses Wayland by default.
If you've tried anything with e.g. KDE Plasma as the desktop environment, that would already tell us a bit more...
Honestly the desktop environments is where I kinda get spacey with linux. The cli makes sense to me. Installing different desktops hasn't been very successful for me. Which distros use KDE plasma?
You can kind of think of a desktop environment as everything that's needed to turn a server OS (which has only a CLI interface) into a desktop OS.
So, it contains (or pulls in) all the stuff for displaying any graphics at all, but then also a panel/taskbar, audio support, icons, global keyboard shortcuts like Alt+Tab, a settings menu and some utility programs like a file manager, a text editor, a calculator etc..
Switching desktop environments is kind of like switching between Windows 7 and Windows 8.
You can still run the same programs, all the CLI stuff and OS internals work the same, but the UX for interacting with that is different. Admittedly, though, different desktop environments usually have more differences than there are between Windows 7 and 8.
As for KDE Plasma, it's available on lots of distros, but to name a few: