You don't need to find the drivers or put them anywhere. If you go to
Hardware Drivers in System, Administration it will tell you if there are
drivers and take care of finding and installing them. In Linux you basically
never search the internet for applications and drivers. They are all kept in
secure locations called repositories and you access them through the package
manager for your distro. For Ubuntu you use Synaptic in System,
Administration or Add and Remove in the menu.

Hardware drivers are the exception. They are accessed through Hardware
Drivers. In rare situations you can get them from the manufacturer, but this
is harder to do than in windows because there is no uniform executable file
format (like exe) in Windows. Each distro uses its own format. For Debian
based distros like Ubuntu it is deb (for Red Hat based distros it is rpm).

If all of this seems to be beyond you, it is okay because you don't have to
know the details. You just go to the package Manager and choose from the
menu.

As for distro switching, there is no guarantee that another distro will
resolve your problem and one person's experience does not mean that you will
have the same results. It could even make things worse. Laptops for example
are notorious for not working well because they have lots of proprietary
hardware specific to that machine whereas desktop computers have more
generic parts. It is hit or miss. Desktops from some manufacturers (Dell
being one) also use lots of proprietary hardware. Most of the time they can
be made to work, but it just takes more time and lots of patience.

My desktop computer (HP) will not work with Mandriva at all. There is
something funky about my hardware or BIOS that causes a kernel panic, but it
only happens with Mandriva. Most other distros work well with it.

At least with Ubuntu you have lots of company. It is the most widely used
distribution and there is no shortage of people to turn to. I would try to
problem solve it first before distro hopping.