Rstudio IDE desktop 2022.02.0-443 not working on ubuntu 22.04 LTS, some GUI issue?

I have hit this libssl1.1 problem with the stable version of Rstudio and Ubuntu 22.04. The Rstudio daily builds (I'm up to #373) install fine but in the default set up Rstudio is unusably slow. I have found a way around this which may help others but I don't like it and hope that some combination of nVidia (hm), Ubuntu and Rstudio come up with a better solution.

Background
This is on a new machine ("Clevo" with "AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics" and "GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q]" (from lshw). I had hopeless problems to get this machine to work with an external monitor with the supplied Mint (Cinnamon 20.3 if I remember correctly) which I think confirms what serious Linux geeks may know: that Linux and nVidia aren't always the best dance partners. Anyway, on the advice of the vendor I swapped from Mint to Ubuntu 22.04. That works fine with the external monitor but I hit that impossibility installing the stable Rstuio because of the libssl1.1 issue so I went to the daily builds after reading this information here.

OK. I find this about the system:

# ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00002520sv00001558sd000070F2bc03sc00i00
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
model    : GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q]
driver   : nvidia-driver-470 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-510-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-510 - distro non-free recommended
driver   : nvidia-driver-470-server - distro non-free
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

# nvidia-smi
Sun May  8 18:13:08 2022       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 510.60.02    Driver Version: 510.60.02    CUDA Version: 11.6     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| N/A   44C    P5    17W /  N/A |     73MiB /  6144MiB |     34%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      5030      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                 69MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      5372      G   ...ome-remote-desktop-daemon        2MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The daily builds install but the interface is so sluggish it's completely unusable. I got a hint from the fact that Chromium has the same problem (as do a number of other programs but only some, to my mind bafflingly, Ubuntu's disks is another example, and zoom). Clearly something is broken in the use of "hardware acceleration" and switching that off in Chromium (and related programs: Opera & Vivaldi) fixes that. The trick in Rstudio is go to Tools, Options, General, Advanced and under "OS integration" to change "Rendering engine" to "Software" (which I assume is the same as switching off "hardware acceleration" in Chromium). Then things are pretty usable. I hope this helps others! Very best, Chris (and thanks to andresrcs for the pointer to the daily builds)

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