Well, yes. Which is why I mentioned the Spacers Choice edition.
It doesn't seem to have the same specific issues on Windows though, apart from generally performng worse than anyone would expect it to.
So I reckon I'll just try and see for myself if that's true. Because the problems many Linux users (me included) seem to have according to ProtonDB make the game borderline unplayable.
Friends are capitalistic propaganda to make you easier to manipulate and control into working long hours so that some guy called "CEO" can show off all of his green pieces of paper to his friends /s