I installed xscreensaver months ago, and it has felt like it has been helping, but there have been multiple lapses, where more visible lines go through the entire screen, and all of my pinned tabs show up on the screen after minimizing Firefox (this usually goes away on its own) 2 days ago, there was at least 1 burn line present on every centimeter height of my screen, and today, there isn't even a single artifact on the screen.
I am starting to become convinced its the GPU. This is my only laptop with an NVIDIA GPU (I got it at the time, so that I could get some other high-end specs, such as 20 CPU cores, 64 gigabytes of RAM, and 4 terabytes of internal disk space) NVIDIA has been extremely unstable on Linux, just like I have been hearing about for several years beforehand, I haven't even really utilized the GPU unfortunately. I feel it might be corrupt.
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