I started seeing this bug since starting using CrossOver version 20 (don't know about previous versions behavior)
Am not good with code error outputs, so I did researching and tried to re-create the bug.
What I found out :
PlayOnLinux with 6.17 x64 Wine version , on DX9 , linking texts and URL browser links work fine. if ticking DX11, the game already crashes with error to send info to Arena Net after you logged into the game account.
CrossOver 20-22 , game works good in DX11 (crashes here and there but from what I saw, even Windows users have this.. but ironically.. on DX9, Windows users had more crashes than the Linux ones with PlayOnLinux (probably CrossOver too) , everything works fine except the copy-paste texts and URL browser links inside game chat (any kind... global, whisper, team, map, guild)
If you add something (I'll explain what, read lower information), the game freezes, and you can't do anything but to force close the game.
For a good amount of time, I accepted this situation that could be related to DX11 and Linux, and let it be how it was.. until a month ago when a friend of mine out of curiosity after having a conversation (he's more into Linux Debian server, so he wasn't new), he wanted to try GW2 under Linux Debian.
With PlayOnLinux he didn't like, CrossOver trial gave him same error as me with freeze thing, so he tried Lutris.
This is what we found out after doing some tests :
In Lutris with 7.22 or 6.17 x 64 Wine versions (he took only latest ones), he had DX11 active, and could copy-paste texts and URL browser links without any hiccups whatsoever.
And we did extensive use on all chat types, and different URLs, all worked like it had no problems.
One important thing to note is that he had misalignment text on in-game Trading Post, but before this he had black screen (couldn't see trading post at all), then he started researching on forums, got some libraries, could now see the trading post, but all text was floating around, and after adding GECKO library (https://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko#Mingw-w64) inside Lutris which rendered the Internet Explorer acting as UI of the Trading Post and finally was all working as normal.
So after this research, I can say FOR CERTAIN that this bug occurs inside the CrossOver app, there is some unclosed string or something hooks up.
Now I add the findings how this bug triggers (and had hiccups) :
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if you copy-paste text from documents that do contain for example : .../watch?v=yfkyP5UZyB4 or other similar, it can paste in-game chat without problems and doesn't trigger
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if you copy-paste a direct URL (for example google.com, yahoo.com, ebay.com, etc) it doesn't trigger
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after adding a new copy-paste URL like this one : .../watch?v=kPkqecMlpw , that "" (underscore) somehow triggers something inside the CrossOver App, because this is the behavior I get : the game didn't show in the chat the pasted URL link (unlike the one before this), and the link shows itself in the chat only after 2x more CTRL + V, and after that whenever I spam CTRL + V , it shows normal like nothing happened.
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so after the "_" I checked other URL links like this one : .../course/web-app-from-scratch-ii-php-mysql/ , and the game immediately froze when the URL had "-"
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checked the document texts, same behavior when I use something like "abc-abc-abd" , freezes when "-" is added.
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checked 2nd time with different results :
"abc_abc" works fine , "abcabc-abd" works fine , "abc-abc-abd" works fine (???) , "abc?abc-abd" works fine, "abc_?=abc-abd" freezes .
So i conclude that the problem is somewhere with _?=- combinations (and sometimes with "shift+(0-9)" also added in the mix)
I will test the game when new minor or major versions are up, and if the game already works fine with any of the above mentioned, I'll leave a clean 5 star rating (and a Congratz on top of that :) )
At least this is what happens on my side with a Ryzen 5 3400G Vega 11 Integrated Graphics Card, no dedicated video card, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
It would be nice if someone with Intel or/and with dedicated video cards can confirm (or another AMD user) that this bug happens too on their side.
Later edit : It seems even if I copy inside the game a text or a template build/weapons+armor tree code, whenever i use CTRL+V to paste in any chat, it freezes there also. In Lutris this doesn't happen.