Just plain ol Fedora. Lots of recommends for Nobara but I doubt the performance increase from the tweaks will make much of a difference with modern hardware.
I went down the “gaming distro” path years ago and it’s just not worth it imo.
You do you though because whatever distro you’ll still be in go ol’ Linux.
I knew the ship was sinking but I stayed around until the name change to X because official and then I bounced. Made it here after Reddit and twitter made more recent bad decisions.
No way I was going to rebuy this game so it’s nice as an upgrade. Use to play a bunch of years ago online by patching the demo. Could only play custom maps though because the server wouldn’t let me download base game ones.
Good luck, pretty sure the rained out spa attendees haven’t gotten a refund for that shitshow.