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by esseph 45 days ago
One of many reasons I left Debian behind for desktop things over a decade ago. I love the project and appreciate the history, but things can get pretty long in the tooth after awhile. Flatpaks help.
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I wish Debian had an Arch style bleeding edge fork. Till then I've been happy using Arch, I had my last straw when a program needed a more up to date GLIBC on Debian. That's such a can of worms to resolve, I just went ahead and gave Endeavour (Arch based) a try and havent gone back or changed distros ever since.

If someone ever makes a Debian distro that is bleeding edge and supports Nvidia drivers (basically a more bleeding edge Ubuntu) I'd be all ears.

Aren't you describing either Debian Testing or Debian Unstable? (Depending on just how bleeding edge you want.)
You cannot find nvidia drivers on there. The philosophy of Debian forbids it.
Just download the source and build the binaries you need. I use GNU stow as a parallel package manager within /usr/local that plays nice with the rest of the OS. It isn't hard for most sane programs with proper build scripting.
Went to an atomic distro + flatpak.