What hardware do you have? Can you please post your hardware specs (brand, model, cpu, graphics)?
If it is old hardware, stick with an older kernel.
However, the 6.17 kernel will no longer receive updates from August. If you'd like to use an older kernel that is still supported and your hardware is a few years old, you could, for example, install the GA kernel 6.8 and set it as saved default kernel.
sudo apt install linux-generic linux-headers-generic
After each update of the kernel 6.8, go to the advanced options and select the latest version of 6.8 or remove the hwe stack entirely.