First I tried going at it with the guide at https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#stretch for Debian 9 "Stretch". This results in "failed to load Kernel modules" message at boot and hangs.
Next I realized (or atleast hoped) that I was using the wrong guide, since it says on that same wiki page that if the command lspci -nn | egrep -i "3d|display|vga" gives 2 lines of output, you have an optimus graphics chipset. This does give me 2 lines of output:
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root@Laptop:/home/user# lspci -nn | egrep -i "3d|display|vga"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:591b] (rev 04)
01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:1c8d] (rev a1)
Thus I tried the bumblebee guide. Following this guide results in the computer freezing at the login screen after entering the password. The mouse won't move and the desktop won't get loaded. Progress though, I guess?
I also tried installing from the Nvidia .run file, but this also hangs at boot without giving any information why. Maybe this could be read from logs or something but I'm kinda new to Linux environments and am not sure where/how to interpret the logs. If anyone is willing to help though, I'm more than willing to go through the installation process again and provide any log info you may need

Thanks.