Open Linux Kernel Modules Installed by Default Starting in the release 560 series, it will be recommended to use the open flavor of NVIDIA Linux Kernel Modules wherever possible (Turing or later GPUs, or Ada or later when using GPU virtualization). If installing from the .run file, installation wi...
It's not likely that the driver will be mainlined anytime soon, so no. It's the same as with the proprietary kernel driver, except maybe some being able to patch problems with newer kernel versions by themselves.