Fixing black screen issues with external NVIDIA GPU on Linux

External NVIDIA GPUs connected via Thunderbolt cause black screen on normal boot despite working in recovery mode

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Solution: enable the Xorg 'AllowExternalGpus' option in NVIDIA configuration to properly initialize the display manager

Fix applies consistently across X11-based Linux distributions

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