Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types

> Ok, so they've enabled software-backed unaccelerated graphics for their GNOME shell, which is obviously going to suck big time.

It may. The newer LLVM-pipe style software acceleration is many times faster then the old Mesa software OpenGL reference implementation.

http://www.mesa3d.org/llvmpipe.html

It's to the point now were on modern CPUs games like OpenArena are actually playable without using a GPU.

I haven't tried it yet so it's difficult to say. Some OpenGL functions will run faster then others and it depends on what Gnome-shell uses I suppose.