Except it doesn't... (See for example perhaps the single most relevant example: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/nvidia-driver https://packages.debian.org/jes

Except it doesn't... (See for example perhaps the single most relevant example: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/nvidia-driver https://packages.debian.org/jessie/nvidia-driver) Not that I'm saying that Debian is a better choice than Ubuntu here – Debian stable is Debian stable, and Ubuntu often contains stuff still considered experimental on Debian side – but unlike with, say, Fedora, many non-free drivers are included in the official repositories.