Open to cross posting elsewhere. Couldn’t really think of a better community for science content with jokes, gags, and research data in video format.

If you’re new to Linux, then NixOS may be outside your comfort zone, but nixpkgs does enable simple patch set integration for legacy Nvidia drivers for use with recent kernels. You could try enabling the 390 config option from a NixOS desktop install, or fetch and apply the appropriate patch from aurPatches source yourself from a different distro for a corresponding kernel version:

• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/993a4bbf26bc8209701f520fd4cb5f60c669cd1a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/default.nix#L193