Check out opensuse tumbleweed. It have been very stable on my Nvidia systems. Getting the packages out nearly without issues, often faster than Arch.

Best OOTB experience for a bleeding edge distrito imho.

Excellent snapshots with rollback from GRUB in case a bad nvidia update messes with your system.

Check out opensuse tumbleweed. It have been very stable on my Nvidia systems. Getting the packages out nearly without issues, often faster than Arch.

Best OOTB experience for a bleeding edge distrito imho.

Excellent snapshots with rollback from GRUB in case a bad nvidia update messes with your system.

Kubernetes. With docker I can recreate the entire host without documentation.

Purchase an extra memory stick for your existing laptop and run your tools on a virtual machine. Very few utilities require an physical machine.

Edit: MBP 2015 is not memory upgradable. But I believe my statement is still your best option.