I ended up installing an older version of mint as suggested by another comment and it seems to be working just fine now. Guess there’s a limit to how backwards-compatible the newest version is.

Alright, I created a new bootable USB with Xfce 21.3 and didn’t have to use compatibility mode this time. Did a fresh install and all the updates and it looks to be working just fine now! It even seems to run a bit faster which is also nice. Thanks for the help, this did the trick!

Command not found and then it lists a bunch of options nvidia-utils-### (there’s a bunch of different ones with different numbers, some ending in -server).

How would I blacklist the nouveau driver? The driver manager doesn’t seem to have any functionality beyond a big checkmark that says says (lies) that everything is good.

First two steps worked, but then I get errors and it says unable to locate those packages.

It’s a well known copypasta