Never.
I didn't do much customization. I don't need to reinstall the system. I just need to make compact view available automatically after the system boot.
Both at Windows and Linux I use the latest driver offered at nVidia website. Windows 11 works fine with this. Linux also works fine, due to my latest experience, just most of the noise comes from the second HDD installed in my laptop. However, recently I tried to switch back to Nouveau, and...
Sorry, there's an update of my trouble. After I removed the "Use compact layout" tick and reset X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (just to check if my changes are saved), letters are overlapped again. Then I again entered Caja and saw the tick activated again. Only after I removed the tick and put it...
Removing a tick from "Use compact layout" option changed the situation to much better. And with 150% scaling letters are put right in lines, despite losing some shortcuts at the desktop. I've also tried to use dconf-editor to set custom scaling, but the settings there are the same as in Caja...
I saw one solution at the other distro forum when they edited some GTK2 file and rebooted. Like they edited some padding or spacing parameter. I'm not sure it works with Linux Mint MATE though.
There's only one file in /etc/modeprobe.d that refers to Nouveau, it's called blacklist-nouveau.conf. This is what's inside it:
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
I've just switched to Nouveau driver. The backlight controls don't work, the fan is a bit quiter than before and the display resolution can't be changed from 800x600. Here's the new output:
grep -i load /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 24.260] (II) Loader magic: 0x559933035020
[ 24.264] (II)...
I've made this output with nVidia driver activated. But yesterday I also tried to purge nVidia software from that 800x600 mode, and it gave out a message that there was no any nVidia software installed in the system, it only offered to uninstall some nvidia-prime lightweight package.