You're in the UK? Lol
Someone got on with Skate? I loved THPS but when I tried Skate it was dull and boring. Probably managed 10 mins then never played again.
It is the same, but I appreciate it may not seen that way. It is to do with how it is designed. If you cut a tree block, leaves around it are converted to orphans. Orphans decay.
Historically all leaf would consider decaying and performance wise in leafy areas, it was horrific, so it was changed to this. It seems the leafs aren't correctly orphaned when the tree was cut. If you press debug (f5), you can see the technical name of the node you're pointing at. If you cut tree, it changes to the leafname_orphan. These can decay. My assumption is the ones not decaying were not orphaned and won't have orphan in their technical name.
We have a bug for this but it hasn't been picked up yet. The project is made by volunteers so can never guarantee what and when someone will work on something.
I have Radeon 6900 rx and it games sweet on Linux. I've played games on Windows with it too without issue (dual boot).
Generally, AMD is king on Linux, Nvidia is suffering (had drivers updates break OS installs). Nvidia is only really if you want ray tracing or Cuda, and I've never needed to.
OpenSuse Tumbleweed is my distro of choice. Up to date kernel. Rolling distro. Stable.