You don’t need to install wine. In Lutris you should set the wine version to the latest proton-ge (that’s a wine fork for gaming). And also did you install the game via Lutris or wine? You should install it via lutris. I just did it once with a pirated game (NFS Most Wanted) and it worked just fine.
I already finished it on RPCS3 and can only recommend to try it out. Yes, there were a few places and cutscenes in the game that didn’t run great but 98% of the time it was a smoother and better looking experience than the PS3 version, thanks to upscaling and frame rate unlocking (at least on an AMD 5800X).
I have also tried that, but it felt very clanky. The audio recognition was so bad that i couldn’t even get pass the initial tuning of the guitar.
Not sure if i made a mistake but when i just listened to the input audio it was ok. Also a lot of people complained online that this option is pretty janky.
For me Half Life: Alyx was not even the best VR game but maybe one of the best games i played in my 20+ years gaming experience. It really shows how great VR can be if developers put an immense amount of time, effort and love into a game. Other honorable mentions: Pavlov VR, Blade and Sorcery (especially the Star Wars mods) and War Thunder
Like others said: it depends.
In my opinion the most important thing to have is an off-site backup. If you have achvieved that, it’s only a matter of how long you are willing to wait for the recovery. If your answer is something like “it cannot wait” then you should go with at least raid 1 and consider additional meausres for the event when your whole array fails.
Do you own a relatively good PC by chance? If you are, you could give the RPC3 Emulator a chance. Its still in development and not everything runs perfect, but if your PC can handle it, it’s a great alternative.
I started Red Dead Redemption on the PS3 and switched to RPC3 a while after, it had better FPS while having a better resolution.
You’re only fucked if you want to pay them to play online. Other than that you can still play all your singleplayer and local multiplayer games.