Cast your mind back to Monday, and you might remember me telling you that the Nexus Mods App—Nexus Mods' skunkworks mod manager that supported both Windows and Linux/SteamOS—was being Old Yeller'd so the site's devs could focus entirely on Vortex, its venerable, Windows-only mod wrangler. Nexus promised that it would look into supporting Linux for Vortex at some indeterminate point in the future, but I wasn't too optimistic.
Well, sceptical past-me was clearly a clown, because Nexus yesterday put out another announcement, this time fully committing to SteamOS support for Vortex. "We’ll be targeting vanilla Steam hardware like the Steam Deck and Steam Machine," says Nexus general manager Iluviel. "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."
