I have a 3080, so 590 is fine for me. But, I’m sure the legacy one is a dkms. But the process of installing that should be done as part of the install. E.g. you install, reboot
What does lspci -k show for the card in terms of Kernel driver in use, and kernel modules?
Also what does dkms status say?
If the module is installed and showing in dkms status and showing as used in lspci -k, it should be available for desktop environments.
I do agree in terms of effort when things go wrong though. I remember when I was a lot younger and I had no problems just sitting in front of my keyboard finding whatever the latest problem is. Now, I want to be doing things with my PC.
But, a bit of debugging might be worthwhile before doing a new installation.







But, they shouldn’t need rescue. The issue is no nvidia driver, but you can still login from the text terminals. Ctrl + Alt + F3, F4 etc etc. In fact when the window environment fails to load it should drop back to terminal.