Reason for this meme is that some ubisoft titles are shipped with a broken version of ubisoft connect launcher. Installing these games is only possible by running the installer for the launcher again via protontricks.
If you need help, feel free to ask here on lemmy. At least my home instance has more linux users than windows users, and there are many who are happy to help.
I don't know what flavor you were using or how skilled you are in linux, but I'm not very skilled with it at all and use PopOS and I've been able to play pretty much everything in my library besides destiny 2 and flight sim x.