Since you're on Mint, just look in the menu for the Driver Manager. More on reddit.com

I switched to Liunx about 15 years ago. I've had plenty of nvidia GPUs over the years, and a few AMDs (I think they were called 390s or something?). Back then, everyone was all hype because the AMD drivers are amazing and nvidia driver suck. I must have missted some Memo, because my AMD GPUs never worked great. I had plenty of issues, and the community is smaller. Hardware accelerated video decoding? Never got it to work. It's been about 8 years, may be better nowadays With Nvidia I've never had any issues at all. Back then Xorg configuration was a bit shoddy, but nvidia shipped a configuration tool which set it up perfectly. A few months ago ArchLinux or KDE decided to switch to Wayland. I didn't even notice until very recently. This is on a Notebook. It's your money, but based purely on "Just Works Good", I say go with nvidia. If your use-case is AI workloads, then it's "Probably Nvidia". AMD is getting much better in this department, but they're still sleeping. No idea why, feels like they don't want to make money. With Nvidia everything just works. More on reddit.com

Nvidia's GPUs are very well supported on Linux as long as you di things that Nvidia wants to support. Maybe dont rush to update to the latest newest kernel and you're generally fine. More on reddit.com