Caboose12000 , 10 months ago

I’m almost just as green as you, so if anyone else comments here you should probably follow their advice over mine, but the only distro I’ve tried with no monitor/Nvidia driver headaches has been Kubuntu. the kde desktop is still very familiar to windows by default and so far everything just works for me, might be worth a shot if you can’t get it figured out with mint.

edit: just thought of another advice

try switching from Wayland to x11, or vice versa. I’ve heard they can cause wonky things like this