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Looks like the people are downvoting you are just being assholes.
I also touched EA or Origin since for almost 20 years, and the only racing games I like are things like Wipeout. So it looks like the games you enjoy aren't titles that either of us play. I was hoping to see a game or two in your list that I either myself or my husband knew a workaround for, and could attest that it works.
I know that some people have had luck opening Origin games through Steam in order to use Proton, my husband has done that for some Assassin's Creed games. Here is someone showing the steps for Need for Speed The Run:
https://www.toptensoftware.com/blog/running-ea-origin-games-under-linux-via-steam-and-proton/
I also completely understand just wanting to come home and play the games you want to play without any tinkering. Use whatever OS lets you do what you want to do on your system. There's a reason I run Mint now instead of something more cutting edge.
I just woke up thinking about this; I have looked very briefly at Bottles (containerizatiom for games and programs), and I actually think it claims to do EA/Origin if I remember the screenshots correctly, but that was about a month ago and I totally forgot to look deeper. Still doesn't check off everything but it's still progress if so.
I'm currently latched into windows 10 until eol and I've been trying to switch to *nix for two decades now, but something has always been too much of a hurdle (dog war flashbacks meme of the wifi driver hell of the mid-to-late 00s) and I end up giving up, restoring from a backup and waiting a couple of years to do it all again. It used to be fun, genuinely, but yeah at this point I want someone else to do it these days and tell me what's broken, I just want to enjoy my time these days. Troubleshooting and trying potentially solutions for a few days just to get nowhere isn't the joy of learning that it once was.