I can install the driver from Nvidia itself and install it that way
and noped out. Protip, never, ever install the driver from Nvidia, that’s windows thinking. Find out how to install it from your distro (in this case RPMFusion, or better for this person, bazzite). It might even work, but it will break on updates.
Edit: Also foot shooting behaviour with cinnamon, get things working using distro default, then try on cinnamon.