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Maybe your friend have Nvidia GPU? I only just switched over to Linux and I managed to get all of my games working without any hassle with the help of Wine Proton and Lutris, maybe try to run games in steam launcher? I have better with it
Unfortunately the fact is that some games are patched to run on Windows exclusively. For some, no amount of tinkering will give you a working game.
In my house there is 1 windows machine remaining, and it's for a software that my wife needs to use once per month for her business,anx she doesn't want to hear about a VM, but we all rock some distro as our daily drivers, thank God.
I have an Nvidia GPU and aside from the occasional lemon of a driver, I've had no issues (to be sure, I don't use Wayland). I play games through Proton just fine. MHW, Elden Ring, Hunt Showdown, BG3, etc. Unfortunately the games he picked are borked or not listed on protondb. Not sure about Minecraft though, I used to play that just fine.