feat: VRAM booster greyed out with an NVIDIA card, with why

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@@ -243,7 +243,9 @@ protected, background apps are evicted first. Without it a game that needs
most of the VRAM (8 GB on the Steam Machine) can be pushed into system RAM
by the desktop and other apps, and stutter. The kernel side is the `dmem`
cgroup controller (7.2); amdgpu and Intel's xe register their VRAM with it,
NVIDIA's driver doesn't. The **VRAM booster** option is only shown when
NVIDIA's driver doesn't: with an NVIDIA card the option is shown greyed
out, with why (`WIZARD_VRAM_FAKE_NVIDIA=1` fakes that for tests). Otherwise
the **VRAM booster** option is only shown when
`/sys/fs/cgroup/dmem.capacity` lists a VRAM region of at least 2 GB (a
dedicated GPU; an integrated one registers a small carve-out) or it's already on, and is
ticked by default; new in 2.3.0, so setups with the SteamOS conversion on