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Here's something promising for the future of cross-platform mod support, as it seems the Nexus team are working on a new Nexus Mods App. It's in the very early stages (pre-alpha they say), but eventually they plan to have it replace the popular Vortex but it's quite a long time away from that just yet.

While Vortex is popular, it's not supported on Linux / Steam Deck and so you need some workarounds with Wine / Proton to get it working. Having one of the most popular modding sites like Nexus actually have an official Linux modding client would be a nice big boost.

So why are they re-doing their modding app? As they mention on the GitHub page they now have a bigger team, and they plan to implement a lot of the lessons they've learned while developing Vortex into this new Nexus Mods App and the idea of easily rolling-back sounds good:

One of the biggest complaints of users over the years about mod managers is that they can't mod with confidence. Will a new mod wreck their existing install? Will copying some files into their game folder require them to delete the entire game if they want to revert these changes? The game updated, and the user updated their mods, now nothing works! Every step of the modding process is fraught with pitfalls and destructive changes.

The Nexus Mods App intends to solve these problems. In addition to being a great mod installer, manager and builder, this project aims to always provide an "undo" feature for users. Not just on a metadata level (like most mod managers offer today) but on a per-file basis as well. So go ahead, update that mod, if you don't like it, you can always go back to the game as it was before you made the update.

In regards to Linux support their FAQ mentioned:

Q: I see tests run on Linux, Windows and OSX, are you targeting all those platforms?

A: Yes, the CLI runs on these platforms and we run our CI on each of these OSes. What games are supported on these platforms (e.g. do we support Skyrim through Wine on Linux?) is yet to be determined.

You can find it on GitHub and it's under the GPL license.

This was officially announced by the Nexus crew back in August, but since I'm not too much into modding I missed it so hat-tip to HardPenguin on X for notifying me.

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Retrograde_i486 Nov 8, 2023
Having played through a modded Skyrim, Fallout 4 and Cyberpunk using Mod Organizer 2 on Linux this is great news. While MO2 works, it wasn't the easiest thing to get running and always felt tenuous at best.
slaapliedje Nov 8, 2023
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: LanzLiam, I thought you were boycotting X? That didn't last long!
As per the update on the article you’re referencing, the issues were reversed. I still don’t like X or Elon but for now it is a valuable tool and I continue to steer people to alternatives. Anyway, that is nothing to do with this article 👍
I didn't like Twitter before it was cool to do so. Haha!
KROM Nov 8, 2023
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I'm really looking forward to that. Modding has remained a real hassle, nothing works really well, nor is it easy to install. Really great news, let's see how it works out.
LungDrago Nov 9, 2023
Modding tools are great when they're available and work, but my personal gripe with them is that the community on each game uses a different tool. It just doesn't take long for a user to juggle ten different mod managers and it gives me PTSD from using 4 chat programs to talk to different people back in the 2000's.
Eike Nov 9, 2023
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Quoting: LungDragoit gives me PTSD from using 4 chat programs to talk to different people back in the 2000's.

You mean like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Telegram, ...?
slaapliedje Nov 9, 2023
Quoting: Eike
Quoting: LungDragoit gives me PTSD from using 4 chat programs to talk to different people back in the 2000's.

You mean like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Telegram, ...?
I miss using pidgin. Instead the chat I mostly use these days is Teams because Corp... it's crap.
Purple Library Guy Nov 9, 2023
Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: Eike
Quoting: LungDragoit gives me PTSD from using 4 chat programs to talk to different people back in the 2000's.

You mean like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Telegram, ...?
I miss using pidgin. Instead the chat I mostly use these days is Teams because Corp... it's crap.
Yup, Teams is the platform I avoid using use at work.
I still haven't figured out what it does that's better than just using email.


Last edited by Purple Library Guy on 9 November 2023 at 6:25 pm UTC
hardpenguin Mar 11
The app just had a new release a month ago: https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMods.App/releases
swizzler Jul 4
Was excited to try this out with fallout 4 as I have been meaning to 100%, then downloaded and saw the notice that it only works with stardew valley, no wonder they're having trouble finding playtesters for feedback.
Quoting: swizzlerWas excited to try this out with fallout 4 as I have been meaning to 100%, then downloaded and saw the notice that it only works with stardew valley, no wonder they're having trouble finding playtesters for feedback.
Haha, I did the same thing. Though was wondering if it was better at r2modman for Valheim yet.
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