https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15433 As we move into 2026, Vortex is shifting back to the centre of our development roadmap. While we have spent the last couple of years exploring new territory with the Nexus Mods App, we have decided to consolidate our efforts and bring all that innovation directly into Vortex. Over 1.4 million modders use Vortex every month to mod their games, and we’re committed to improving their modding experience.

Our plans for the year include a steady, iterative modernisation of the Vortex user experience. We’ll be investing in the developer experience, which will allow us to focus on quality-of-life improvements, specifically streamlining navigation, simplifying game management, and introducing more intuitive controls for load orders. You can expect the interface to become cleaner and more responsive as we integrate the design lessons learned from our recent projects. Our goal is to make modding more accessible and reliable without disrupting the workflows that long-time Vortex users have come to rely on.

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.

Here’s an early proof of concept (subject to change) of the updated Vortex navigation:

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      Works perfectly for me.

      Create new empty lutris app, run installer in prefix, set install path to virtual c:, after that you set the executable and that’s it

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      They do.

      Use bottles or something to run the unpacker, then just add it as a new game to Steam, or set up your your own WINE/Proton environment or use some other tool that does that.

    • BuffyEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      They do! It has been a while since I used one but there are ways to get them running well. I had to always check the ram limiting option and there were some permission issues I was running into when I used the default directory.

      Then I also ran into issues getting the games to launch using Lutris, instead of adding an exe as a game I would have to run it through Lutris like it was an install exe every time… But I’m pretty sure I just had things misconfigured and was too lazy to try and fix it.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        I entirely do not understand why Lutris even exists at this point.

        Get a game, add it to Steam, if its gonna work, it’ll work.

        Lutris? Gooood luck.

        • sonofearth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 hour ago

          Cuz I don’t want to be dependent on a corporation. If, god forbid, Valve starts to enshitify, I don’t want to go back 10 years in Linux Gaming. And Lutris works just as fine as Steam. So having options is always nice IMO.