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.
very niche but i think it deserves a mention: the Outer Wilds mod manager doesn’t just support Linux natively, but it even has a CLI version, and it’s up on AUR and Flatpak
https://outerwildsmods.com/mod-manager/
as others have said though, r2modman/thunderstore manager also runs in an appimage and works perfectly well for games it supports, and MO2 and Vortex work more or less alright if they’re in the same prefix as your game or potentially even if they aren’t.