Or the gog versions offical vanilla and aplying patches this still something the player has to do? I mean how playable is Gothic 2 and 3 without these highly praised community patches?

After much tinkering, I have been able to get Gothic 2 Gold Edition to work with community remastering patches and a Logitech F710 game controller on Ubuntu Linux 25.04 using wine.

For reference, I have shared the script I used here:

codeberg.org/free-bird-yeah/ubuntu-config/src/branch/main/gaming/setup_gothic-2-gold-edition.sh

In the script itself, I have documented where I got the community patches.

For the Logitech F710 controller, I used the antimicro program with the following configuration:

codeberg.org/free-bird-yeah/ubuntu-config/src/branch/main/gaming/gothic2.gamecontroller.amgp