The display on my laptop keeps glitching out, and it's from top to bottom from left to right it's the entire screen, and when I try to screenshot anything most of the time it just freezes and I can't get out of it, it takes forever, and sometimes I even have to restart my laptop and that's not all that freezes, whenever I try to open an app just a simple web browser my mouse just freezes for some reason and I have to wait like 10 seconds just to start using the app, could be from the app loading though, but I don't know how to explain the Glitches, that part just aggravates me, and the screenshot tool freezing aggravates me as well, the waiting for an app to load is bearable. I've heard that this is caused by a graphics problem rather than the Operating System itself, I am on an ASUS TUF GAMING F17 and here's my drivers selection just to clarify I did end up switching to another one but it automatically set it back to the one that was selected before my change both still had the glitching issues.
Do you have dual boot?
If no, disable Secure boot from your Bios.
If yes, disable fast startup in Windows power settings
Try to see if you are in Wayland or Xorg with this command
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
If you are in Wayland switch to Xorg like this
- Logout
- At the login screen, click your username (don't enter password)
- Click the gear icon in the bottom right
- Select "Zorin Desktop on Xorg"
- Log in
I disabled secure boot and I'm on Xorg, this was all before the glitches and freezes started happening, I've been on Xorg since I got Zorin OS.
Hi. I used Mojeek search engine, then if it does not come back with anything appropriate, I select Brave search engine which Mojeek offers as one of the many alternatives on offer.
Usually the first result is Braves A.I. and I used Ubuntu 24.04 in the search criteria as that is what Zorin is based on:
" For an RTX 4060 Mobile on Ubuntu 24.04 , the recommended proprietary driver is nvidia-driver-550 , which is marked as recommended by the ubuntu-drivers utility.
- Primary Recommendation : nvidia-driver-550 (proprietary) is the default stable choice for most users.
- Alternative for Wayland : If you encounter black screens or flickering with the proprietary driver on Wayland , users report success with nvidia-driver-570-open or nvidia-driver-535 .
- Installation : You can install the recommended driver automatically via
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstallor manually withsudo apt install nvidia-driver-550. - Dual Boot Note : On some laptops (e.g., Lenovo), you may need to toggle to dGPU-only mode in Windows BIOS/Vantage settings to unlock full TDP performance on Linux.
AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts."
Only to verify Your Hardware: It has a i7-13620H, 16Gig's of Ram and a RTX4060, is that correct?
Okay, good. For the Browser, You could try it with disabling Hardware Acceleration. For the System: Do You have Fractional Scaling in Settings>Displays active?
Another Thing could be to try uninstall the Nvidia driver and install the 595 to check if the newer Driver offers a better Stability. And maybe think about to install it over the Terminal. If there should be an Issue, the Output there could show it. If you want try it, here the Steps:
First uninstall the current Nvidia Stuff with:
sudo apt purge nvidia* libnvidia*
When done type:
sudo apt autoremove
to remove File Rests. But please take a Look at the List of the removing Objects before You delete them. Then install the Driver with:
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-595 nvidia-dkms-595
That was the driver I selected before it automatically defaulted back to the one selected in the image, yet when I was on that specific driver, I still had the glitches and freezes. Nothing changed.
Update: I ended up just reinstalling Zorin OS from scratch, I downloaded balenaEtcher then installed a second Linux Distro(Lingmo OS) since my first install of Zorin OS was coming from Windows 11 rather than a Linux Distro, I then installed Lingmo OS erasing the disk then installed balenaEtcher once again then installed the Zorin OS up to date iso from the website, then erased the disk which was using Lingmo OS and everything is now working smooth as butter... no glitches so far, and no lag. I haven't disabled Secure Boot just yet, so just have to see how it goes. Fingers crossed I don't run into anymore issues. But I finally got it fixed.
Hello,
I experienced these issues after last updates. He glitching & frezzing, at Zorin logo staying longer then ussual, same at log in screen, mouse freezing at moving and clicking, he work slow also as never before. I can't loging in. Please for help.
After reinstalling Zorin OS a second time, I had a sudden realization that this issue was actually caused by Jelly Mode in Zorin Appearance, not saying that's the reason, but it most certainly had an effect on the issue. Maybe try disabling that.
Yeah, it's interesting. Thank you, I appreciate your help. But I solved the problem by reinstalling the xserver-xorg graphics drivers, because I have an AMD graphics card, and that helped everything work normally now.
After digging more into it, I found that since I had Jelly Mode enabled in Zorin Appearance on the first install of Zorin OS, yeah that was one of the problems, but not entirely, I found out that what I had been having issues with notably the Pinch out to Zoom in/Pinch in to Zoom out turns out that the solution I had for that was actually the cause of the lag & most likely the cause of the glitches. It's so frustrating that I had to reinstall Zorin OS when I could've just disabled that in settings and everything would've been so much easier, anyways since this was the actual cause for this issue, I'll mark this as the solution.