I have installed all of those Sims games at one point. It works fine. Mods work without any problems as well.

Lutris will help you for the most part.

I think for Sims 3, I specifically had to use Lutris 7.2 as the runner (IIRC, I have to check again). It didn’t work with other versions. I will verify this when I’m home.

I did the most setup for Sims 3 (there is a whole guide for performance). I don’t remember details too well, but it’s still set up I think, so you can go ahaed and ask questions

Minecraft runs native, for Steam games you can see protondb.com

I’d be worried a bit about the Nvidia GPU. But since I have no experience with them, someone else should give you advice on this.

Here’s what Signal says: https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/

Signal knows all of their users’ phone numbers.

Only the hash of your phone number.

Genuine question, how precise do you need the time to be? Maybe you actually need precise readings for something. I figured that “on the 5 min marker”, “slightly before/behind the 5 min marker” and “in the middle of two 5 min markers” is precise enough for me. And I see a hand at these positions faster than reading numbers.

I think for precise readings (eg. entering the time I start working), the speed is the same for me, but obviously I didn’t test this.

I also think looking at the time but still not knowing what time it is a few seconds later happens less on an analog clock.

I don’t know how much personal preference influences this though.