GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 26, 2026

• Instructionals/Technical

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• Games

  • Slashdot ☛ 2026-01-12 [Older] Linux Hit a New All-Time High for Steam Market Share in December

  • Nexus Mods Vortex To Get Linux Support in 2026, Thanks to Steam Hardware

    Nexus Mods is one of the more prolific mod sites on the internet, housing mods for everything from Skyrim and Fallout New Vegas to Stardew Valley and Subnautica. While the mod platform has a native Windows application, called Vortex, the development team behind Nexus Mods recently confirmed in a 2026 development roster that, as part of an effort to modernize Vortex, the mod application, it will get support for the Valve Steam Deck and Steam Machine in 2026. The blog post announcing future Linux support explicitly states that Nexus Mods will only be focusing on "vanilla Steam hardware," and that it will not be officially supporting any other Linux distributions. Currently, Linux users have to download and manually install mods, the traditional way, usually by moving the mod files into the correct game library folders. Official Linux support in Vortex would not only make mods easier to install, but it may streamline the modding experience altogether and make mods easier to maintain on Linux or SteamOS.