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Nvidia just works unless you have a some weird obscure hardware combo. It's been like this for over a decade. Nvidia's reputation is because their code is shit, their processes are shit, and they lack feature parity from windows that their competitors have shown isn't an environment limitation (like changing the amount shared dram used as vram).
Tips: Your distro maintaindr already did the hard part, get the driver from them instead of nvidia (unless you're on Debian, then you're on your own).
If you are on debian (or any of the other rare distros that don't package the nvidia driver for you) and using xorg, back up your xorg.conf because the nvidia installer will modify it and the new one may not work. If you're not comfortable using the terminal, make sure you take note of the location of your xorg.conf to minimize time spent there, you will need it though.
If you're on a normal distro, it's usually just
sudo <PackageManager> <install flag> nvidiaorsudo <PackageManager> <install flag> nvidia-open