Today I changed my mind. I went to the Driver Manager again, I checked nouveau, I clicked Apply changes, waited and accepted to Reboot.
However, once the computer opened again, I can still see nvidia's icon in my system tray! And the driver manager incorrectly states that (a) I have a manually installed driver (b) no proprietary drivers are in use (c) both nvidia and nouveau are grayed out.
Here is how the situation looks like:
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m@m-X555LJ:~$ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: m-X555LJ Kernel: 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1) Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine: Device: laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X555LJ v: 1.0 serial: N/A
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X555LJ v: 1.0 serial: N/A
UEFI: American Megatrends v: X555LJ.504 date: 08/04/2015
Battery BAT0: charge: 28.6 Wh 100.1% condition: 28.6/37.3 Wh (77%) model: ASUSTeK ASUS status: Discharging
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-5200U (-MT-MCP-) arch: Broadwell rev.4 cache: 3072 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 8787
clock speeds: max: 2700 MHz 1: 986 MHz 2: 904 MHz 3: 1117 MHz 4: 1106 MHz
Graphics: Card-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 bus-ID: 00:02.0
Card-2: NVIDIA GK208M [GeForce 920M] bus-ID: 04:00.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: modesetting,nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: 1366x768@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce 920M/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.77 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2 Intel Broadwell-U Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-38-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (14.6% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST500LM030 size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 229G used: 68G (32%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
ID-2: /boot size: 462M used: 224M (51%) fs: ext2 dev: /dev/sda5
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:44C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 2800
Info: Processes: 234 Uptime: 25 min Memory: 1408.8/3847.5MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56