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Mod managers for Linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 18 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've finally started having some free time lately and have been working through my Steam library, most of which is Windows games I'm playing with Proton.

I wanted to install some mods, and wanted a mod manager for this. Nexus Mods has Vortex, which is not available for Linux. In any case, running Windows games on Linux through Proton on Steam is fairly specific; the game files will be at certain locations on a Linux filesystem, not at the same locations as they would be on a Windows filesystem. So I think I would need software that has specifically been designed for this use-case (Windows games from Steam running on Proton).

Are there any such mod managers out there? What do other people do when playing games on Linux? I can't be the only person who wants to play video games with mods.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I haven't done it a lot, but running a Windows mod manager in the same prefix as the game should work where there isn't a Linux native version available.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I've not really tinkered with any kind of settings and just use Steam's default which is to have a separate C: drive for every Proton game, so does that mean I'd need a separate install of a mod manager for every game? Ideally I'd like to have just one mod manager that recognises all my games (that are supported by the mod manager at least)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

Yeah, the way I was suggesting would only work for one game at a time. You might be able to set something up with symlinks to make everything visible in a separate prefix for the mod manager, but that sounds like way more trouble to me.