Also its possible to screw up a system that way, but its easier / lazier to just install the wrapper package that takes care of everything including dependencie

Also its possible to screw up a system that way, but its easier / lazier to just install the wrapper package that takes care of everything including dependencies. So on freebsd, pkg install nvidia-driver, or on legacy linux apt-get install nvidia-driver and you're all done. Someone looking for trouble could do it the hard and dangerous way, but why? Also commercial software other than possibly games, is dead man walking and is dead on FOSS platforms. Sure, go ahead, pretend its the 80s and try to charge me money for an editor, or a compiler, or pretend its the 90s and try to charge me for a web browser or a database, its just not happening.