[pataphysician]

the open source nv driver is "maintained" by Nvidia, it's has a lot of obfuscated code so they are the only ones who can actually maintain it. Aaron Plattner of NVidia is one of the main maintainers, and posts here, and I would think maybe some fellow NVidia linux users might know from experience, as there is no good definitive info anywhere I searched. Real inviting forum here, makes me really not want to buy another NVidia product ever again.