humpywolf Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 Vortex runs with Python, Phython runs on Linux. Just need someone able developing Python on Linux. But what is with the other software like LOOT ore SKSE for example? No, Vortex doesn't use any python, except for the build system.It uses javascript (electron/node.js) though, which is also available on Linux. As you pointed out: other tools may not be native on those platforms, they have to be run through wine either way. But who cares? The games supported by those tools are windows-only as well, if you run skyrim through wine you can run skse through wine.A native version is always better, then you don't have to worry about a Wine layer getting it right. Could you release a Wine bottle of the app? Sure, but it'd be bigger for what is a fairly small app, and again native tools are ideal. If some tools aren't cross-platform then alternative code would need to be sought to replace them. How much work would that entail or how much work would it take to move the remaining apps to Linux vs. a Wine bottle? Not sure, but either way, a cross-platform app managing native apps as well as non-native ones would be superior to a non-native app managing native and non-native apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilldappel Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Vortex runs with Python, Phython runs on Linux. Just need someone able developing Python on Linux. But what is with the other software like LOOT ore SKSE for example? No, Vortex doesn't use any python, except for the build system.It uses javascript (electron/node.js) though, which is also available on Linux. As you pointed out: other tools may not be native on those platforms, they have to be run through wine either way. But who cares? The games supported by those tools are windows-only as well, if you run skyrim through wine you can run skse through wine.A native version is always better, then you don't have to worry about a Wine layer getting it right. Could you release a Wine bottle of the app? Sure, but it'd be bigger for what is a fairly small app, and again native tools are ideal. If some tools aren't cross-platform then alternative code would need to be sought to replace them. How much work would that entail or how much work would it take to move the remaining apps to Linux vs. a Wine bottle? Not sure, but either way, a cross-platform app managing native apps as well as non-native ones would be superior to a non-native app managing native and non-native apps. Wine does not use all the resources of the Windows architecture. Wine needs a lot of hardware performance. Linux is a completely different way of handling hardware resources. We need them to make more open source games, so it's easier to port them to Linux and better understand how they handle 3d hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenssword Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 Replying for support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jotoho Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 I would like to see this, too.Vortex just dies during installation for me when using wine (development branch).VirtualBox has major performance loss making it unusable for running Skyrim and VMware is not showing created Virtual Machines so I cannot use that either.I have tried to install NMM and Vortex inside a Windows Virtual Machine with VirtualBox and get them to install the Mods through the Shared Folders feature of VirtualBox but they just don't want to install mods on a network drive.A native Vortex port would be ideal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinityXXL Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Well, Installing Vortex was not the problem, but when using steamplay the .ini files and saves, normally under C://MyDocuments/MyGames/Skyrim are in another folder (.steam/.../compatdata/steamuser...). So Vortex isn't able to find them. Furthermore it crashes always when trying to install a mod (loading the mod in the manager works, but pressing "install" causes Vortex' window turning into white and freezing).So yeah, we definitely need a Vortex version for linux, but it should also be compatible with Steamplay/SteamProton! (different folder structure) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannin42 Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Vortex already has code to expect steam in ~/.steam/steam when on Linux - that's where it was installed in my VM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrkarol Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 A port to linux would be really nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDKWIDAA Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 Bump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark0ne Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 We are aware some users would like a Linux port, but we are not going to be working on one for the foreseeable future. We've just got too many other things we need to do and not enough time to dedicate to a port at this time. All our codebase is open source and available on Github. We will very happily work with and provide support and advice to any user who wants to port Vortex to Linux, but we cannot do it ourselves at this time, or any time in the foreseeable future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarsys Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Hi Dark0ne, I would like to know which communication channel is ideal for support? I would love to try out getting Vortex to work. So far, I am stuck on wholocks which should just be "lsof" or "lslock" in Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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