POL-POM-4 VS com.usebottles.bottles

Should the website www.playonlinux.com indicate the situation more clearly too? Any clarification? What do you think of this "mess"?

I noticed the Call of Duty series on Steam, so I expect most or all of them will play perfectly fine on Linux Mint in Steam. If you want to play Windows games outside of Steam, there are apps like Lutris and PlayOnLinux that make running Windows games on Linux pretty easy. https://lutris.net/ https://www.playonlinux.com/ https://www.protondb.com/search?q=call%20of%20duty

If you will to run a game with Wine, use the release version. You can also use PlayOnLinux (I feel old mentioning this), Lutris, and Bottles (this new one I didn't tested yet).

So, I don't use WINE directly. Instead, I use PlayOnLinux, which hides most of the complexity for you. It handles all the WINE stuff on your behalf. It looks like you're using Ubuntu (please remember to include your Linux version in future!), so you can install PlayOnLinux from the standard repositories.

I believe POL is basically dead, see the repo here: https://github.com/PlayOnLinux/POL-POM-4/commits/master where there were only 10 commits over the last 2 years.

https://www.playonlinux.com/ is a good resource to get Windows Apps up and running easily and has a compatibility list of most software

There are also GUI front-ends for WINE. PlayOnLinux has been around for a long time, and Bottles has recently come on the scene. I don't know how to use WINE, but I can use it because of those two apps.

If you want to know if a game is playable or not and it doesn't have a linux version, then the best way I know of is looking it up on lutris. You can't look on protondb, because it's only for Steam games. You can also look on wine and playonlinux, but they usually aren't as exhaustive as lutris.

I find WINE quite complicated to use, so I use PlayOnLinux, which is a front-end for WINE. Unless you need expert mode, it's way easier to use PlayOnLinux than to have to fiddle with setting up an app directly with WINE.

More info here: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.usebottles.bottles

Install a Chromium-based browser (e.g. Brave) using Wine (I did it using Bottles), and you should be able to stream in 1080p.

GNU Bottles

Or you can use it as a Runner in Bottles and avoid all the hassle.

If it's a Windows game, maybe you can run it by Bottles.

For those using Bottles instead of Lutris, the installer for EA App there also Just Works™. Just last month I was playing Star Wars Squadrons there without any issue.

With Bottles they worked. I put the exe and dll in ~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/[xxx]/drive_c/users/[xxx]/downloads/.

As long as you run them sandboxed, e.g. using Bottles via Flatpak, or maybe even Firejail, it's just very unlikely they will affect your system.