You don’t want to unless you’re just planning on running a web browser or word processor or something, they’re significantly buggier and massively slower than the proprietary driver, and especially so on newer cards.
Looks like a graphics driver issue. Are you using the proprietary Nvidia drivers or Nouveau?
because that would cost a rather large amount of money, which us working-class peasants famously don’t have
You don’t want to unless you’re just planning on running a web browser or word processor or something, they’re significantly buggier and massively slower than the proprietary driver, and especially so on newer cards.