Haha yeah, I stole the chair from my office. I'm not sure they know I have it...

They are good enough for me is I think the best answer I can give for that. There is some flex in the plate but that's mostly a design issue with this particular wheel stand. I'm relatively tall and have pretty long legs so to mount the plate in a comfortable position I have to mount it backwards and all the way back. This means there's a lot of overhang where the pedals are mounted. I've thought about fixing this by welding up a support bracket to go between the pedal plate and the base structure. It hasn't bothered me enough to actually walk out to the garage and do it though.

I also run the softest rubber in them and replaced one section of the rubber with a valve spring from a 1991 Ford Escort. I experimented with various combinations of rubber and other materials and this was what ended up feeling the most like my actual car (which is not a 1991 Ford Escort).

So to sum it up, they are fine in my opinion, but I also don't make the brake as stiff as a brick wall like some people do, so it's possible the rig matters more if you like that.

Here's a picture:

EDIT: I just tightened that jam nut... didn't realize it was loose until I looked at this picture.

EDIT2: Here's the configuration, nothing special. Just in case that's what you meant by setup:

I tuned the "catch point" for the clutch in the EEPROM so I didn't have to do it in every game.

(I'm op, just using this account since federation is broken on my instance)

In my opinion as someone who's really rather bad at sim racing but tries to have fun, ACC "feels" better to me. I don't use VR, so that's not a consideration and I have no experience with that. There are on the other hand a lot more interesting cars and tracks in Automobilista2 than in ACC in my opinion. You can't go slide around a 60s era mini cooper on Nordschleif in ACC for example.

However, because I'm really bad, I tend to mostly want to do a quick 1v1 against my friends instead of competing in a big online race with lots of pressure, and for that Automobilista2 is better. ACC requires a dedicated server as far as I can tell and I have not yet gotten it running. It's not too bad, but more work than clicking "create new" and telling your friend the lobby password.

No worries! So I followed, roughly, this guide and it works pretty much flawlessly for me. With the exception of rain, (I'm a patron on x4fab so I tried it, fought with it a lot, and couldn't get it working).

That guide is aimed at the steam deck so I just skipped all the steam deck specific stuff. Pretty much install GE-Proton7-55 like you normally would for any other steam desktop game. Then go through the install process like they suggest, letting it crash, setting the launch options, etc.

The one caveat I suppose I should mention is that I use sway (wayland) and have to run everything in gamescope to make it play nice with tiling and wayland in general. This works mostly fine, except that the content manager window can be resized, and resizing windows in gamescope makes them fill the screen at whatever size they currently are. So if you mess up you might end up with a tiny tiny window and need to launch it outside of gamescope to get it back to a reasonable size. Also the button tool tips are a little flickery, but I just deal with it.

Give it a try! I'm curious to hear if you run into any issues, and let me know if you have any questions.