You entered the Linux Desktop scene at an awkward time, using an NVIDIA card.
Linux Mint’s packages are old. I would never recommend anyone to use Mint with an NVIDIA card. Not recently at least.
We just hit a compatibility point ( this week ) with the NVIDIA drivers and popular DE’s like KDE Plasma and GNOME which provides an excellent Wayland experience. Distro’s like CachyOS and Nobara Linux are probably one of the only ones taking advantage of this so far. Besides those of us who roll their own.
I have to admit, a proprietary web browser hardly seems like a reason to stress out. If the browser is a deal breaker, is it specific to Mint and whatever version of the driver you had installed?