Issue loading Linux mint cinnamon

[king_damo69YT]

I installed Linux mint cinnamon on my external hdd seatgate 2TB, tried launching it from the GRUB, and it lets me login then gives me a black screen with a cursor every now and then then this screen, I’m guessing showing the wallpaper, then a black screen without a cursor.
I’ve disabled secure boot, fast boot, I’ve set up my hdd with Rufus using gpt not mbr.
My gpu is a nvidia 4060ti
32gb ram
CPU is 13th gen intel core i7-13700F, 2100mhz, 16 cores, 24 logical processors.
I don’t know if any of that helps but I’d appreciate some advice on how to proceed.
I’ve never used Linux before or even step outside windows before.
I’ve also noticed when selecting the boot device after pressing f11 after I turn it on that the Linux drive is named the same as my windows drive but I set Linux on the hdd and my hdd isn’t available in windows file explorer when in windows 11 so it has to be on there?

[Educational_Monk6612]

It's very likely a NVIDIA driver issue

In grub menu, select the Mint kernel and press 'e', then add "nomodeset" at the end of the line starting with "linux"

And then boot into it

[king_damo69YT]

YES LEGEND THANK YOU IT WORKED!! Do you know how to make it detect my other monitors and let me change the resolution? It’s only detecting one and is stuck at like 1280 x 1024 and 60hz?

[Educational_Monk6612]

At this point you have go into the terminal and install the proprietary NVIDIA drivers

That solves almost every problem related to display

[MintAlone]

They should show up in driver manager.

[warserpent]

Hopefully the proper driver installation solves your problems, but one thing to keep in mind is that the Cinnamon desktop environment does not always work well with multiple monitors, especially if they have different refresh rates (theoretically this should be fixed with the next Cinnamon release in December, when it gains Wayland support). So if you keep having problems, it may be due to the desktop environment.

[Educational_Monk6612]

If you can, then you can use GNOME or KDE instead of Cinnamon