We’re also committing to supporting Vortex on SteamOS. We’ll be targeting vanilla Steam hardware like the Steam Deck and Steam Machine. We won’t be officially supporting any other configurations, but as Vortex is an open source project community developers will be free to extend support for their preferred Linux distros as they please.
I hope they discover Flatpak and support that, instead only one platform.
They’d kinda have to if they go native right? SteamOS is immutable. Unless they go AppImage it’d be a weird deal to get installed.
I’m kida assuming they’ll use proton though for their app instead of going native though but I agree flatpak would be great to see
The immutable part is only for the main system. You can run any application, in example with a user script to install and setup everything in home directory. Or AppImage off course.
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I MAKE A MOD MANAGER
I GIVE UP ON IT
I MAKE A NEW MOD MANAGER
THE NEXUS CREED
Recently I got a decent sized skyrim modpack running as easy as on windows using jackify( an install wrapper for wabbajack). It was actually amazing how simple it was. I thought it was going to be the final boss of linux modding.
The community tools are doing a great job bridging the gap
I haven’t used it myself, but there Limo, a Nexus compatible mod manager for Linux. Seems competent.
Limo is closer to Mod Organizer than Nexus Mod Manager (honestly the only interesting part of the nexus one is the mod collections feature for “mod packs”)
Collection support is the number one reason I’m still trying to get vortex working on linux. Otherwise, I’d be trying limo out.
There’s a grease monkey script that lets you download collections in one go without the client
I haven’t managed to get Limo working. It’s clunky and straight up doesn’t launch mods.
I only care about this for stardew
Holy shit I had played hundreds of hours of SDV on Switch before I got the Steam Deck. I didn’t realize how much even just QoL mods would make a difference. Being able to zoom out further, your horse being one square wide vertically instead of two, seeing whether you’ve petted your farm animals yet, being able to look stuff up within the game…
I don’t think I could go back.
It absolutely is a game changer. Although not fun on steam deck when a new version comes out and its a pita to update all the mods
Hopefully Vortex will make that easier. I can update all mods on my PC far more easily than on their now-discontinued Linux offering, because I’m not willing to pay them their insane membership fee.
(I seriously feel like they should rethink that price. They’d get far more people to sign up for it if it were cheaper.)
Disable updates in steam and launch with a different icon to bypass the update on launch, classic Bethesda game workarounds
I don’t think this works anymore, tried it with Silksong to play on the launch version.
It does if you’re launching through something else so steam doesn’t realize you’re launching it, like don’t directly hit play on the actual game.
We’ll be targeting vanilla Steam hardware like the Steam Deck and Steam Machine. We won’t be officially supporting any other configurations
developers will be free to extend support for their preferred Linux distros
mfw distro and hardware are interchangeable
What if I install debian on my steam machine, Nexus? Will you still support that hardware? Or do you actually just care about targeting a single set of libraries and can’t be assed to properly explain that?
