Oh my god, they finally admit they have no idea how to do anything Linux, after spending years acting like they did.
CrunchyRoll levels of competence going on here, folks.
Anyway, check out Amethyst or Nomm or Limo for open source, linux native mod managers, pretty sure theyre all available as flatpaks, Amethyst is also available as AppImage, etc.
Didn’t they already have a Linux mod manager that they killed off just a few months ago because they said Linux wasn’t worth their time?
Yes.
That’s correct.
They spent around 2 years telling us it was gonna work on Linux.
Then it didn’t, then Linux was dumb and stupid anyway, guys, jeez.
Now they’re hiring I guess a solo dev to do what they were confident they could do on their own, and spent 2 years failing at doing.
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Finally!! Can they even catch up at this point? Linux mod managers are insanely good these days. Vortex runs like crap under proton.
One of the few benefits of AI is that modding is so much more accessible these days. I see mod updates almost weekly, sometimes even daily.
Vortex needs to embrace open source or its never going to get the traction it needs.
I’ll eat a sock if Nexus actually embraces open source.
Their entire modus operandi is amalgamate and gatekeep and profit off of the open contributions of others.
Would they fork and then privately develop an open source project, possibly in direct violation of that project’s liscense?
Sure I could see that happening.
But… actually do open source right?
I’m entirely ready to boil, salt and butter a sock, but I don’t think I’ll need to.
They like to be the ones that make up dubiously and likely legally unenforceable intellectual property rights policies, and then enforce them highly arbitrarily.
I genuinely don’t know how to describe this kind of mindset other than ‘extremely reddit powermod’.
I haven’t tried modding in a while. What are some good mod managers nowadays?
Another vote for Amethyst. Just started modding for first time. Here my post about it: https://lemmy.ml/post/54821902 “Nexus Mods with Amethyst-Mod-Manager (first steps starting guide)” on Nov 2nd, 2026 [10 days ago]
