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Any way to get Vortex running on Linux? Or alternatives to it (lemmy.ml)
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[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think the version of yad installed by the OS might be an older one, you can check on the terminal with:

yad --version

Fortunately, SteamTinkerLaunch has options to work around that using conty or appimages, see https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch/wiki/Yad