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Reminds me of the time I had a nvidia GPU laptop and was distro hopping like a rabbit on crack trying to find something stable. Surprisingly enough it was Arch that proved to be the most stable and what I ended up sticking to.
Yup, been using Arch for around 16 years, never had a problem with an Nvidia card and the vast majority of my GPUs were Nvidia. Every time I hear the horror stories of prime and bumblebee I really couldn't relate because everything just works for me.... A couple of years back however my company gave me a laptop with a company approved OS (Ubuntu), and while I don't know who's exactly to blame here (but I have my suspicions), I've had to use prime-select to set the OS to work always with the Nvidia GPU, otherwise external monitors work like shit.
It could be that ThinkPads are shit compared to Acer (and every other brand I've had in the past) laptops, it could be that the i7 on that laptop has a shitty GPU and can't handle the external monitors. But I'm 90% sure that if I put Arch there it would just work, and I wouldn't almost burn myself with a 99°C laptop that's constantly running a GPU that's not meant to.