NexusMods is doing everything they can to capitalize of the current operating system war between Windows and Linux. By trying to provide a bridge for the popular penguin operating system that took the world by storm recently this will not only increase the user base of NexusMods but it will retroactively make Linux stronger too. Along with this all of these changes are happening because all Valve systems like SteamOS are just repurposed versions of Linux with merely a different name but he same Arch Linux core. If you are curious to try out modding and you are on Linux like many, you are in luck.
NexusMods coming to Linux
Vortex is the platform primarily used to load mods into games, a ton of popular titles sometimes need mods to be remotely playable in today’s day and age. For example, you might be familiar with Fallout New Vegas, game known for being quite a mess in many aspects such as optimization and bugs, mods made by fans not only fix, but expand upon the game itself. It is crazy that most of the time the people and fans who participate in the NexusMods community are the ones doing the job developers should do from the beginning.
With all the crunch going into the video game industry, it is clear that developers don’t really have time or motivation to even do things right anymore, so they just sit with what they think works well enough and roll with it. As the industry outgrows player’s budgets, less and less copies of games will be sold because there won’t be good hardware to play on them, and as the “AI” hardware crisis continues, until we don’t pop the bubble and bury this tech into oblivion we won’t have affordable computing. Regardless, this is the right choice by NexusMods.
