For Rome, grand theft auto in the 70s is absolutely doable. Full of gangs, terrorists, molotovs.
Grand theft auto Rome 2023 would be about some fat guy bribing politicians to get the work for his company of collect garbage and never do it. The lucrative non-fancy side of crime
All 2022 Rome had only 16 homicides… And street are too small and traffic is too bad for a grand theft auto… Rome is good for spy stories, thriller or stealth games. GTA wouldn’t really work
In London not even police has guns… Having someone hanging around with a gun is too unrealistic, more than Harry potter
It provides an alternative UI environment built and optimized for gaming. It has a separate windows manager, a complete ui, and a set of menus to simplify customization of whatever is needed for gaming and power saving.
And quick access to steam store.
It is extremely convenient if you like a console-like experience, but, if you are a tinker gamer, it has anyway a lot of nice additional features.
It is inconvenient as general purpose desktop os, because on update you basically lose packages not installed as flatpack
It was an old lady replying to a telequiz in the main public tv channel (imagine as the bbc for Italy). The show was one of the most popular among boomers. The question was “it’s foamy but it is not soap”. The old lady replied with “la borra” that is like italian for cum, but not exactly. You can hear someone laughing behind. Probably there was a group of younger people suggesting the Italian for cum as a prank, but the old lady repeated it wrongly because she didn’t know the word. Or she was mispronouncing the actual answer (“beer” birra in Italian). Anyway, the anchor woman, whose surname is clerici and who is known to be very polite (almost a nun, i.e. soura in italian), kept repeating “la borra” live on the main public channel.
An emulator has a performance overhead. Even a simple translation layer like valve’s proton has an overhead. The fact that most games are simply unoptimized and windows is so bloated means that the additional overhead of proton is not a performance bottleneck. But if one has a good hardware and a good dedicated OS, emulator is not really necessary, which is good for performances