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.
I use Limo, it takes some getting used to after using Mod Organizer 2 for so long but it gets the job done. I havent used it for any huge modlists yet though as it tends to be a little buggy/unintuitive sometimes.
There’s also a way to get MO2 on linux, should he on github as modorganizer2-linux-installer.
I suggest Prisim Launcher for Minecraft, but if you also play other games and want mods I can recommend r2modmanPlus they have a appimage and platform specific builds that you can download and its opensource!
https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch for when you need MO2 or Nexus (that isn’t Stardew). Keep in mind this will install a new instance of the app for each game you use it with (in its proton prefix folder).
https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMods.App is the current version of the new Nexus Mod Manager App, which has linux support. Currently it only has game support for Stardew Valley.
As many others have said, go with PrismLauncher for Minecraft. Modrinth’s launcher works fine too, but doesn’t have curseforge support.
