This is true. And despite the frustration - the wanting something to work already, I personally enjoy learning the new things and feeling more empowered and capable.
I have one more suggestion. This one involves learning new things.
Enter the grub menu by bapping the esc or the tab key when you see the motherboard splash screen. You should see listed options to boot Zorin OS - select the one that ends with (Recovery)
In the recovery menu, enable networking. Then back up to the menu and arrow key down to Drop to root prompt
Add the TuxInvader repoistory:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tuxinvader/jammy-mainline
Then update sources and install the 6.12 kernel.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install linux-generic-6.12
I suspect that the 6.8 kernel is where you are having issues.