Option to ALWAYS look for external modifications

[Anorf]

It's all in the title.
Vortex is a real nightmare for mod authors, I made the choice a long time ago to go for vortex rather than MO2, which I now regret a lot.
Vortex is like apple and macs, closed, rigid, not flexible. Making changes in your files or esps is complicated. Even simple things like bodyslide is not well handled. Pandora is not handled by the way, which is tricky, although it says it is. Needs to be run manually, doesn't run like FNIS.
I see MO2 like linux...

Which gets me to the point : could an option to automatically check for external modifications be added ? If you make changes, you need to close vortex and reopen it so that it triggers the search for external changes. A tool like CK or SSEDIT seems to be working aswell, but if you just change a file manually that is located in the skyrimse, you deploy, and you won't get your changes. Then you copy the files or folder to repack it, and all is lost because vortex didn't took into account the modification.

Would be great and improve QOL for modders or people that want to modify mods.

[ChemBoy1]

Vortex always checks for external changes before deployment, so I am not sure what you are asking for. Just deploy mods to get the external changes dialogue. 

What version of Vortex are you using? Need to be on the latest stable 1.13.7.  If you are running an old version, things may not be working as intended. 

[Anorf]

I am using last version.
Vortex only checks external changes when the conditions I mentionned above are required.
Doesn't check external change every time. When I deploy, it will not do it all the time.

Maybe a bug on my side then

[Tannin42]

checking for external changes is part of the deployment process. As Vortex deploys files it automatically notices if any of its links have been replaced by an external application. The "External Changes" dialog simply presents those findings.
It doesn't really make sense to have a separate "check for external changes" workflow because it would take just as long as an actual deploment and not find anything different.

I don't think your comparison of Vortex to MacOS is a fair one. Vortex is fully open source and has an extension system that is much more flexible and powerful than any other mod manager. It is by far the most customizable manager there is, it's just that people don't know how and don't care to learn. It's more like Vortex is Linux 20 years ago if the only users trying to use it were MacOS users who expect things to work exactly like they're used to and all the advanced users who could extend, improve or explain it decided to ignore it.

Linux is great because a great community developed around it, not because the linux kernel is somehow special (not trying to downplay the achievement just saying there are other open source kernels that aren't worse and still didn't achieve the same popularity).