I guess having a native version of vortex would maybe be worthwhile for those playing native games. But if talking about a native version of vortex that can manage windows games being played under wine/lutris/bottles/proton/etc I don't see a huge advantage over just running it under wine (etc). Am I missing something? I mean, sure, if someone really went above and beyond and handled a lot of complexity like covering all the {native-game,game-in-wine,game-in-bottles,game-in-lutris,game-in-proton,flatpak,snap,etc} scenarios as Tannin hinted at, then it would probably be much simpler for newcomers and save them from having to install it under wine/lutris/proton. No argument that it would be cool to have one app that could manage it all vs having to manually deal with symlinks between different wineprefixes. But as far as Vortex under wine, I've used it under wine in the past and don't remember any major issues, there's a winehq report from June 2023 says that basically all core functionality works. Out of curiosity, I just tried reinstalling in a wine prefix after doing
WINEPREFIX="/path/to/wineprefix" winetricks dotnet6and then let Vortex run the fix dotnet thing on first launch. I didn't test it very thoroughly or anything but launched fine after that and seemed to find my game (Morrowind) without any issue. Might try it out more as I get time but so far so good. Even worked while running wine in firejail if you want to secure the wineprefix. ---- Edit: from tajetaje's suggestion, I also read up on the new NexusMods.App a bit and looked through it a little on github. Didn't run it as the impression I got from looking thru the github issues and such was that it is extremely early development and needs some time to add in basic things. Is good to see that there is at least an interest in being cross-platform but things like the last line here (emphasis mine): Make it seem like something that could just as easily get axed or relegated to second-class citizen or "maybe later" by the time things get released. Not trying to be pessimistic but I've been burned on Linux-support promises elsewhere in the past and refuse to get my hopes up anymore. So would be appreciated but will see how it goes.
