Maybe things have improved, or support was just never that good for older NVIDIA GPU's (for reference, last time I used Nvidia on Linux I was running Fedora on

Maybe things have improved, or support was just never that good for older NVIDIA GPU's (for reference, last time I used Nvidia on Linux I was running Fedora on a Thinkpad P50, which I think has a Quadro M1000M gpu), but it'd be a costly experiment to find