@toadie …Maybe just luck or maybe you did not went deep enough (:
jokes apart, I had some small issues with Nvidia cards, as I posted, but I was able to fix everything. The drivers always works fine for me since 2019 when I started my Linux journey, and I never had a kernel incompatibility.
This also because I always stay with latest kernel version, also in Debian I was using bleeding edges kernel. On Debian testing release Nvidia drivers with latest kernel is working like a charm. The same I would say it’s the same on Arch with latest updates.
@IronRod that’s very odd, it seems for some reason the system isn’t able to load propretary Nvidia drivers and it’s stuck with default nouveau.
That would explain the different looking of the different graphic quality, but are you able to start some game with wine + vulkan? Or some applications running Opengl? In theory if propretary driver isn’t loaded I think you might see a popup sayng some errors.
I can tell you I was on Linux Mint during summer 2024, I can’t remember which version of Nvidia driver, but for sure I never had some issues.
Btw Driver 550.120 were officially released by Nvidia at september 2024:
Linux Mint is using so old packages, my hypothesis is latest kernel available on Linux Mint might be a bit buggy with Nvidia drivers, expecially oldest one. that’s very unlucky for you (:
I don’t have the answer I never was into this problem, but I can suggest you this reddit I found googling:
The user might have a Nvidia card problem similar yours, I suggest you to keep monitored the thread and the situation, Btw I’m pretty sure there will be a fix, although Linux Mint is’t so fast on updates you might wait for a while.
Or… if you are brave enough you can try download Nvidia drivers from official website and install them…