How to check my drivers and vulkan are installed and functioning properly, and general noob advice

Hello and welcome,

It sounds like you already understand the basics like concepts of ‘terminal’ and ‘command’.

After that a great first step is getting familiar with -h, --help and man.
With these you should be able to navigate an understanding of how most things work.

In a moment I’m going to ask for the output of an inxi command.
First you can take a look at how inxi works using any of the following;

inxi -h
inxi --help
man inxi

(this final man command will overtake the terminal window and you can exit using Q)

While not all terminal utilities will have --help flag or a man page … they will usually have at least one of the above methods of providing information on how to use them.

Please run the following and copy its output here:

inxi -Farz

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