Nvidia drivers not working on 17.1 or 17.2

You might want to try the kernel from pop os and use their nvidia drivers instead (the 550 one). This fixed issues for me running Zorin OS 17.1.

Open the terminal and write

sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:system76-dev/stable
sudo apt-get update

Download their latest kernel (6.9.x):

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt install linux-image-generic linux-headers-generic

Download the stable Nvidia driver:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-550-server

After it's installed you might want to delete their repo

sudo apt-add-repository --remove ppa:system76-dev/stable
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