Yeah, and in that case the issue is in the opaque NVIDIA drivers that reimplement the whole X server. The NVIDIA Linux driver is laser-focused for areas it does

Yeah, and in that case the issue is in the opaque NVIDIA drivers that reimplement the whole X server. The NVIDIA Linux driver is laser-focused for areas it does well, and exotic configurations never worked out with it for me. If you might possibly ever use something other than Windows, it's a good idea to avoid multi-vendor graphics pipelines like these when considering a laptop. It's also a good idea to avoid NVIDIA if you don't primarily intend to play games or run compute.