Apologies I forgot to mention DE. I’m on XFCE, I tend to stick with old faithful. Tends to always work well for me, regardless of distro.
I could only get nvidia drivers working “the hard way.” Had it booting well and fine after that. This issue occurred the following day, after no major updates. On a functional read-only snapshot boot now. Result of inxi -SGz below:
~> inxi -SGz
System:
Kernel: 6.5.3-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1
Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230917
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP104M [GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile] driver: nvidia
v: 535.104.05
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~120Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.104.05 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX
1070/PCIe/SSE2
I will be attempting rollback to this working snapshot, as all the others, but expect same result. 
On an unrelated note, I’ve always been struggling trying to get a local xhost going for an app through docker. Even with all the potential fixes out there, nothing works, even when it should be by all accounts.
xhost: unable to open display ""
Any chance I’d be better off on a different DE here? Are others more functional/less issues that XFCE?