True, but if AI is doing much of the coding, that means the devs have been out to lunch for a while, aka, not actually trying to do the much needed overhaul to the frontend UX.

Heroic is also doing some sloppy things, though.

I have not used Heroic much at all, but from what I have used it for... yeah, much more intuitive user interface for the vast majority of the most common use cases.

Heroic is best for PC games from GOG, and Epic and Amazon I suppose. Got quite a stock of free games from Epic that I've never bothered to start up.

Lutris did fill a hole for 'emulation', all your console games, dosbox &c all in one place. Heroic doesn't really do that. Looks like it's time to find another tool that will...

Heroic is great for newer stuff but I still have Lutris because some older games work there out of the nox just fine while they don't even launch in Heroic.

Well that certainly is an edge case scenario.

I would hazard a guess that it ... should be possible to get it working through another way of setting up WINE/Proton, if you can get all the dependencies and specifics figured out... maybe via Bottles?

But, figuring all that out would be a hassle, and may just end up not working.

I mean, if it works, it works.

The closest thing to that that I can say is that via RetroDeck on Bazzite, on a Steam Deck, I literally accidentally discovered that the touch screen controls for that worked just fine, without me doing anything beyond normal RetroDeck setup.

Just got annoyed, assuming that I couldn't use a DS/3DS second screen as a touch screen, 'Boy I sure with is could just-' .. and then I poked it, and then it worked.

But thats probably a different ballpark than getting an windows program to play nice with a linux touch/pad/stylus.