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Victor posted the announcement as a Google docs link in the app's discord this morning.

Basically they said that developing two apps was slowing down development.

Specifically on Linux support they said this:

We're also exploring what Linux support might look like for Vortex in the future. While getting every game and mod working on Linux might not be possible, it’s an area we want to keep evaluating where it makes sense.

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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that the fault of Vortex, or just the modding scene in general?

Using Vortex to install mods for Bethesda games was pretty straightforward. It auto installed extra tooling and even knew how to set the order of the mods.

Where Using Vortex to install mods for some unity games was kinda janky. Sometimes it just works. Sometimes it doesn't without extra configuration.

But then I tried it for Cyberpunk and it was just nuts. There was like a set of support tools I needed to make some mods work, and if I was using Mod B, I need version 2 of Mod A. And if I used Mod C, it needs to be above Mod B. Cryptic errors, as you said.

Still. Light years beyond a decade ago.

[–] SolSerkonos@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

A bit of both? You can run into cryptic errors and weird issues even modding Bethesda games with Vortex, but there's definitely games that are dramatically more complicated and finicky to mod whether you're using Vortex or just doing it manually.