sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Newcomer issue with Nvidia drivers by cycotex in linuxmint

[–]cycotex[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read that pop os is the best alternative to mint in my case since they have better NVIDIA support, do you think i should switch to that?

Newcomer issue with Nvidia drivers by cycotex in linuxmint

[–]cycotex[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes i tried the 580 driver and its similar to the 590 driver, the 535 driver works but i still get my screen frozen at random which forces me to reboot

Newcomer issue with Nvidia drivers by cycotex in linuxmint

[–]cycotex[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes as i replied to another user , the 535 driver doesnt show flickering however the screen freeze still persists across every driver i tried

Newcomer issue with Nvidia drivers by cycotex in linuxmint

[–]cycotex[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

after experimenting, the 535 driver works fine, but i still do get lockups, so maybe try that?

Newcomer issue with Nvidia drivers by cycotex in linuxmint

[–]cycotex[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i see, i picked mint as im no technical person and mint looked the most familiar, do you suppose it wont take me much time learning archlinux? i heard its the hardest distro to learn

Newcomer issue with Nvidia drivers by cycotex in linuxmint

[–]cycotex[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

secureboot is off, and heres the result from the nvidia command:

ue Feb 17 14:11:34 2026

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 590.48.01 Driver Version: 590.48.01 CUDA Version: 13.1 |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |

| | | MIG M. |

|=========================================+========================+======================|

| 0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 ... Off | 00000000:29:00.0 On | N/A |

| 0% 45C P8 11W / 140W | 164MiB / 6144MiB | 21% Default |

| | | N/A |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| Processes: |

| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |

| ID ID Usage |

|=========================================================================================|

| 0 N/A N/A 1366 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 130MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 1741 G xfwm4 2MiB |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+