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I mean...you're mostly right, but I don't know how setting a few flags like -H,-W,-h,-w is that big of an issue. I agree lutris and maybe heroic (I don't use) have frontends for these,but I would hardly that "way better".
Edit: grammar,typos
it's incredible how out of touch this community is with the average end user. I'd wager that MOST people don't know how, much less want to set custom flags for every one of their games. Believe it or not people actually like using nice GUIs and rely on simple intuitive frontends, and it's a massive failure on Valve's part considering they're the largest, most mainstream PC gaming platform.
Nobody running a FOSS third party launcher is an average end user. Also, people routinely add flags to typical games even on Windows (e.g. -skiplauncher)... It's really not that big a deal.
Yeah. I don't know what those flags are... Yet.
The moment a game launch fails in that particular way, I will be diving all the way into that particular deep end.