While their plans for a newer Nexus Mods app were shelved, they continue working on revamping Vortex and they want to get this popular mod manager on Linux.
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’.
While native modding software is great on paper but when my game crap out or one of the mod is mis-be having and conflicting with other mods, I have to do elimination process of disabling one mod at a time and relaunch the game, it will take 10-25sec to start proton and the game itself which is annoying and a waste of time, that’s why I still use MO2 running through proton so the game can start without waiting for proton because it already running with MO2. does Amethyst have some kind of proton stand by in the background? Cuz last time I checked it doesn’t have it plus it didn’t even start with my pirated games.
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]
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?
Amethyst
While native modding software is great on paper but when my game crap out or one of the mod is mis-be having and conflicting with other mods, I have to do elimination process of disabling one mod at a time and relaunch the game, it will take 10-25sec to start proton and the game itself which is annoying and a waste of time, that’s why I still use MO2 running through proton so the game can start without waiting for proton because it already running with MO2. does Amethyst have some kind of proton stand by in the background? Cuz last time I checked it doesn’t have it plus it didn’t even start with my pirated games.
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]