Looks cool but unfortunately the only games I'd be really interested to play are the more modern ones my friends are playing, my understanding is the copy protection etc always gets tripped up by Wine.

Thanks to Valve investing a ton into proton (wine, dxvk, vkd3d) copy protection are usually no longer an issue.

The problem is kernel-level anti cheat like EAC, BattleEye, Vanguard and EA's AC. The first two work flawlessly (on Linux) if the developer enables support for Linux (Halo, Apex Legends).

Oh, Apex is working on Linux now?!

Or the recent Game Porting Tookit, supporting DX12: https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Game_Porting_Toolkit

Quite a few modern games are supported: https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Game_Porting_Toolkit#Ga...

That is still wine

It’s CrossOver, so Wine, but the support for DX12 (and the Metal support) is by Apple and afaik not merged back in wine.