There was a Taylor Swift Linux but it’s dormant

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=swift

True, but not things you will use day to day. With such a little machine, I would go with EndeavourOS with i3 or sway and build it up from there.

The only disadvantage is that you have to manually update, unless you’ve installed it from the aur.

That’s Bennet. He had a really steamy scene.

Officially Cute, but for me it will always be cutie

Engine X. I think.

It’s Canonicals’ package manager. A lot of people, myself included, dislike it mostly because the backend is proprietary and it locks the repository to Canonical only. Also given their past history, it may be doing something nefarious.

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=swift

Oh! Tay as in Taylor! God I’m slow.

maybe it’s being sarcastic?

The very first computers were programmed using physical switches and buttons. Punched cards came later. Being a programmer in those days was a lot harder than it is now!

Isn’t Zorin very out of date?

If you’re supporting it, then one you are familiar with would be my recommendation. If you’re both beginners, then Mint.

You could say they got ahead of the game.

They were a nice-to-have!

On EndeavourOS, you just have to run nvidia-inst. Mint has the driver manager, and other distros have ways of handling it. For your card, you’ll want the Nvidia Open driver if it doesn’t do it automatically.

TLDR: These days it’s easy.

Out of date Nvidia drivers was the main reason I moved from Tumbleweed to EndeavourOS, at the time they were a couple of generations behind and didn’t even have explicit sync.

When installing on Arch (or a derivative) you should run sudo pacman -Syu package_name so it is always up to date.

You’ll be fine with anything AMD or Intel even on debian stable, since they’re both active in developing their linux support, where nVidia doesn’t support FOSS drivers.

Not strictly true any more. There are Nvidia open drivers, but they may not be in Debian yet. In fact, Nvidia recommend using the open drivers for cards it supports, which if I recall correctly, is Turing and newer.

Going by my experience, the problem is something else at your end. Mind you, I don’t load it down with loads of extensions.