You only have to do that if it's the compressed version because 7z strips the permissions.I'm running the game fine in Linux. I don't use Wine at all. I am running the Linux native version, but have made several of the updates using the Windows 'www' folders when there wasn't a Linux only version of the update available. The main thing that I have to remember to do when I run updates is change the permissions (chmod) on the merged/updated files. I'm running Linux Mint 20, kernel 5.4.0-74-generic.