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:
I’ve been using Limo for 2 years now to run 10+gigs of mods for FONV, CP77, and Kenshi, on a Steam Deck.
I have been doing that since before NMM even claimed to support modding CP77 on Linux. It never really correctly did.
Limo is not that hard, it just isn’t an easy button.
And oh dear god the horror, you have to download all the files you want instead of just clicking once to download a collection.
And even worse, use your brain a little bit to figure out how to unfuckup mistakes make by amateur modders, gasp, the horror!
I’ve been modding since the 90s and its actually hilarious to me the level of no-thinking, on demand convenience people demand.
Go try to set up a full KSP Realism Overhaul install.
They just straight up tell you that if you can’t figure out how to follow their instructions, which are correct and do work… you’re not smart enough to play the mod overhaul.
We need more of that energy, to counteract consumerism and AI driven brainrot.