Been using Zorin Education on one desktop with no issues. Able to upgrade kernel to 6.14 and now testing and working well.
Decided to install Zorin Lite on the other desktop. One option was to Try or Install Zorin using latest NVidia driver and that's what I chose. Proceeded with the installation, reboot and got a desktop running with the latest NVidia driver for my gpu. Could have not gone any smoother.
Decided to copy all the New Kernel 6.14 files from the other desktop to this new setup. Reboot and I got a black screen. Then I remembered the nouveau driver that could possibly interfere with the nvidia. Went and blacklist nouveau and added nouveau.modeset=0 to grub entry. This time I had a working desktop .
But here's the weird part. Even though nouveau is blacklisted, booting kernel 6.14 uses nouveau while booting 6.8 uses nvidia
Other than that. Everything is good. Just thought I'd share the experience.
Copying the files over is a rather rudimentary method of installing a kernel. I would have installed the 6.14 properly from source.
Likely, you need to install your Nvidia Driver with DKMS in order to elevate your kernel. When you moved over the 6.14, you had no modules to manage the Nvidia driver.
To resolve this, you can add the graphics repo:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
Update your sources and then install Nvidia driver with dkms. I am printing the command for the 570 driver:
Copying is not the norm but it works and so much faster than compiling. Guess will find out sooner or later if it will cause me not be able to do something. I was also thinking about the module and you just confirmed it, EASY FIX. Thanks
Added "SOLVED" to the title as @Aravisian 's post to add the repository, update and install, installed the 570 NVidia driver succesfully and working properly.
ALSO, I would like to add, kernel 6.14.0 is stable and I'm not experiencing any issues what so ever.
Just thought I'd share the experience.