That might be the case. I only lasted maybe five minutes on Artix before giving up and trying LMDE7, and it uses the 550 driver version which so far seems to sleep properly even after doing things that would normally trigger the hang consistently. I suppose I'll delve into the possible fixes if I go back to the Ubuntu version of Mint.
Not having an equivalent to this
View attachment 8407751 was immediately awful, and I really missed the ability to type a word related to what I wanted to do into the start menu and have the relevant app pop up with the functions clearly described. Using the "Software Manager" application to find apps made so much more sense then recognising that I had to use "Octopi", which somehow failed to find any available applications to download no matter what i searched even after clicking what i presumed to be the refresh button.