The proprietary driver from Nvidia has different version numbers like 390, 450, 460.

You may switch to proprietary drivers in such cases. For some systems, Nouveau works pretty well while for some it could create issues like blank screen or poor display.

Most of the time, Linux distributions install the open source Nouveau driver and you can manually enable the proprietary drivers.

Open source drivers called Nouveau and proprietary drivers from Nvidia itself. I have tried to mention different methods with a bit of explaining what’s going on and what you are doing in these steps.

Recently some readers requested help with Nvidia drivers with Linux Mint and hence I came up with this article. We have many beginner-focused Mint tutorials on It’s FOSS. Of course, if you’re using Linux Mint like I do, you’re probably already aware of it. Not just limited to being one of the best beginner-friendly Linux distros, it also does a few things better than Ubuntu. Linux Mint is a fantastic Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that aims to make it easy for newbies to experience Linux by minimizing the learning curve.

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