I have several laptops with Nvidia graphics that can't run proprietary drivers because not only has Nvidia deprecated the drivers, no platforms even package the

I have several laptops with Nvidia graphics that can't run proprietary drivers because not only has Nvidia deprecated the drivers, no platforms even package them anymore, while newer drivers exist in distributions' package repositories. So you can end up in a situation where you've installed proprietary drivers via package manager and then a year later the packages are gone entirely. You're forced to use PPAs that don't work or packages on the AUR which also don't work, and you're restricted to distributions that support either 3rd party packaging solution if don't want to install things manually, which also doesn't work.