Hey, I wanted to start speedrunning GTA:SA but my computer runs Ubuntu, so i ran into several questions:

1. Is it even allowed? There is any difference with Wine emulation/direct Windows gameplay?
2. I have trouble with keyboard inputs being a bit delayed, meaning that taking steep turns with cars is near impossible, forcing me to slow down while driving and steering (which is a pain in the ass and very imprecise). I'm playing on a laptop so I don't know if it's an issue of the hardware or Wine (keyboard settings are fine, indeed I tried a million different combinations and I couldn't quite find the right configuration)

I'm trying VM since I already had had trouble trying to mess with partitions. It's not old (HP15, like two years old) but not a beast.

Yeah a separate disk partition is probably the best option. If you were to use Wine or anything then it would count as an emulator.

Counting Wine as an emulator is a bit hilarious considering what the acronym stands for.

Yeah you should tell the SRC mods to add "compatibility layer" as an option instead :P