So… it usually significantly lags behind the propietary drivers in terms of up to date features and optimization and newer game support.

That would not be an issue for me I don't think. I am literally running 2 year old drivers on win11 rn because anything never has been vibe coded by nvidia and my games literally started crashing and my PC would just stop outputing video signal on newer drivers. (went back and it fixed it).

When you say you only ran into timezone issues on ‘fedora’, do you mean standard mainline fedora?

Yeah I meant fedora workstation (44 I think) with Gnome. I had no ikssues with nobara and bazzite apart from bad performance and not liking the way they do updates and some other minor things (mainly preferences not really dealbreaking)

You also say your main use case concern here is WarThunder and Squad 44, the latter I think meaning the WW2 submod of Squad? Or is it actuslly a fully distinct game at this point… I haven’t kept up.

(Ah, apparently it is its own thing now!)

It was a mod for squad that got spun into its own game called Post Scriptum that was then later abandoned, reaquired by offworld, rebranded, handed off to the devs of one of the biggest mods that got officially integrated and now seemingly is abandoned again.

I dunno, what uh… what kinds of frame rate and such differences were you getting on which OS and which gfx settings vs … same gfx settings on Win10 or Win11?

I was using same or lower settings as win11 and getting less than half the frames with really bad stutters. I even ran a little experiment with WT on my laptop. On win10/11 I could run the game at 80 fps on low settings on an intel Iris XE iGPU. The same laptop running fedora 44 and the native linux version of WT (that actually exists surprisingly) could barely run the game on ultra low graphics (old videocard support) at around 50-60fps with inconsistent frametimes and sometimes bad stutters with the game often freezing for 2 seconds upon entering a match.