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Looks like a graphics driver issue. Are you using the proprietary Nvidia drivers or Nouveau?
Whats nouveau?
unofficial open source nvidia drivers
That sounds cool, gotta look into that
You don't want to unless you're just planning on running a web browser or word processor or something, they're significantly buggier and massively slower than the proprietary driver, and especially so on newer cards.
Oh, is there any open source alternative?
That IS the open source alternative
Please also mention that the reason the Nouveau is slow is not because of incompetence rather it is because nvidia only allows drivers signed by them to be able the change clocks of their GPUs(at least the fairly modern ones) and hence Nouveau can only run the GPU at base clock. This is being rectified now(after like almost a decade iirc) as nvidia is adding their proprietary firmware to the kernal which will then allow Nouveau to control the GPU clockspeed. Also NVK is being developed to provide vulkan support for nvidia GPUs through the open source driver(Nouveau)