I believe Zorin now defaults to 550. 555 is also viable in my experience, but people have had significant trouble with 560, myself included. Other people have found 560 to be fine, so it seems to depend on what you're trying to play.
I agree with Locklear!
I had serious problems with Nvidia Driver 560, it lagged my PC down so bad, it was as if it wasn't engaging my GPU at all, and was relying on my CPU only. But I don't use my IGPU, because its too slow for prime time, and its only use, is for battery life, when running on battery. Since I use my notebook as a desktop, I don't give a crud about battery life.
I was forced to use Nvidia driver 550, which does infact work decent, and engaging my Nvidia 3080 16GB GPU just fine. So I do recommend using the Nvidia 550 driver.
While the Nvidia 2070 GPU is several generations old now, were talking about Linux here, remember that. Unlike Windows who likes to slow down your PC like pushing a ceramic dinner plate through molasses, with all the spyware they use, and non optimized Windows OS's.
Linux however, is designed to run on pretty much all computer's. You can run Linux on a 10-year old PC, and still be able to use it just fine. I proved that, when I installed Zorin OS 16, on my 2012 Acer computer, and it ran just fine.
If anything, Zorin OS 16, on a 2012 computer, installed on a internal SSD drive, really brought that old machine alive, something for which Windows would never have done! I only use it as a mechanics shop computer now though, its not for modern day gaming or production workloads.
Point is, Zorin OS will keep your older machine running an Nvidia 2070 on it for awhile now. Zorin OS doesn't instill these arbitrary requirements, because it doesn't operate snoopware. Just another reason to stay away from Microsoft, they are awful in every way.
Linux, is freedom, Linux is life.
I'll stick with the default for now, and see what happens. I'm inclined to update mesa and test how that goes before updating Nvidia. So i'll try it in 3 stages, if necessary. If ootb works well enough, i'll just leave it as that.
Try suspend on your machine, it will black screen you to death. You can't get out of it and have to hard reboot your machine (TTY and so on does NOT work). I tried plugging a hdmi cable and hook it behind a tv in the hope i got a signal, no signal detected said my tv. Closing the lid and opening did not work either. The 560 driver is terrible, even games with proton did not work anymore. I stick with the 555.57.01 driver for a long time until nvidia get things sorted.
My Acer machine has the 565.xx.x driver installed, i did this manually because it should fix this issue. Machine is working fine so far, the 550 driver had the same issue with suspend but lesser. The 550 driver did have booting issues, blinking cursor and that whas it. The acer machine is very picky with nvidia drivers, i noticed this back in 2021 when i started to use linux on it.
I had same experience with driver 560 when I was using NVidia card as @Michel before I switched to Radeon card. With Radeon I can even gaming in Wayland.
Yeah, AMD on Linux FTW. Unfortunately the PC i purchased was second hand, so i got what i got. Beautiful terminal btw.
Thanks.
Hopefully Nvidia will pull it together.