from what I can see the driver installed correctly this time
[mixel@mixel-ms7a33 ~]$ inxi -Ga
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 23:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1c03 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
alternate: nv resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: NV136 v: 4.3 Mesa 21.2.4 direct render: Yes