https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15433 As we move into 2026, Vortex is shifting back to the centre of our development roadmap. While we have spent the last couple of years exploring new territory with the Nexus Mods App, we have decided to consolidate our efforts and bring all that innovation directly into Vortex. Over 1.4 million modders use Vortex every month to mod their games, and we’re committed to improving their modding experience.
Our plans for the year include a steady, iterative modernisation of the Vortex user experience. We’ll be investing in the developer experience, which will allow us to focus on quality-of-life improvements, specifically streamlining navigation, simplifying game management, and introducing more intuitive controls for load orders. You can expect the interface to become cleaner and more responsive as we integrate the design lessons learned from our recent projects. Our goal is to make modding more accessible and reliable without disrupting the workflows that long-time Vortex users have come to rely on.
We’re also committing to supporting Vortex on SteamOS. We’ll be targeting vanilla Steam hardware like the Steam Deck and Steam Machine. 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.
Here’s an early proof of concept (subject to change) of the updated Vortex navigation:
Sounds great. It took me like 12 hours to get modded New Vegas working on the Steam Deck. While completely worth it, I'd very much like the process to be just a little bit easier.
Did you use LIMO or anything? My first time was basically mod elsewhere/copy files, this was much slicker. Seems like as usual "official" support is coming once FOSS has finished the heavy lifting
No, I didn't use that. This is the first time I'm hearing about it.
I used Mod Organizer 2 with the Linux version of Viva New Vegas. It didn't work, so I manually installed all of the mods, then solved some remaining issues. Took a while, but works flawlessly. Performance and battery life are pretty much the same as the vanilla game.
I was going to write the process down, but by the time I got to it I forgot some parts unfortunately. I couldn't find any working guide, so I was mixing several and seeing what works in which cases.