I dont really want to use that proprietary driver, but I plan on getting an old Thinkpad W530 that has some probably pretty slow NVIDIA GPU. Do you know if these are well supported by Noveau? Would be great!
I want to play around with coreboot, flashing heads onto that laptop and all.
I would just get a T530 which is basically identical but it doesn't have the nvidia GPU. You can upgrade the screen to a W530 1080p one, they're interchangable.
You will have problems with the nvidia GPU on a W530 on linux. Especially if you want to use the displayport, as that is connected only to the nvidia GPU. Basically the displayport won't work without permanently enabling the nvidia GPU and disabling the intel iGPU, killing battery life.
Basically my general advice for a linux laptop is avoid nvidia at all cost.