Hey gang! Wanna start by thanking everyone for the kind words, advice, and commiseration over the last few days. I managed to get it set up and I’m going to turn this edit into a short tutorial for what I did. Big thanks to [email protected], they’re actually the suggestion that worked out best.

For background, I’m running bazzite on desktop PC.

ProtonUp QT is on the bazaar flatpack store and readily available for other distros in the same way. Install that, run it, pick STEAM TINKER LAUNCHER. It’s simple enough.

!IMPORTANT! You have to restart steam after you do this step or it won’t show up in the compatibility tool list.

Install your game, update it, and run it once so all the files are there and fresh. If you aren’t certain about the freshness of the files (like me after 4 different attempts with other software…) Just delete the whole game folder and have steam check the local files.

Go into the game setting, compatibility tools, tick the force compatibility and pick the Steam Tinker Launcher. Then launch the game.

If you’re like me, this will flash a window for STL and then launch the game. If you quit the game it will give you a chance to edit the STL settings. Just click the button for vortex.

This opens another window, where we click the install button. Now if you’re like me, this will immediately crash your computer. Hopefully you’re luckier. Upon rebooting and relaunching the game, vortex will inexplicably be working just fine.

Now, there are a few hangups in vortex, to download mods you’ll have to copy the URL and paste them in the download page. When you go to manage conflicts you’ll have to use arrow keys to make selections, and every so often it won’t let you drag and drop files into it until you restart.

Lastly, I suggest annually installing skse for Skyrim. Easy stuff, extract the file, rename the skse launcher to replace your Skyrim launcher, and dump all the files into the Skyrim folder. All your mods will complain, they think it’s not installed, but it is and it works fine.

I personally used a mod pack for the legacy of the dragonborn. It costs money to get those and it’s not required.

Anyways, thanks again everyone!!

  • LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    This may not entirely help you if you don’t have a Windows drive (I dual boot when needed, especially for modding my games easily on Windows and then moving the files over to Linux after testing it works in Windows) but:

    • Log into Windoze
    • Install your game if it isn’t (Quick Tip: If you do have Windows and Linux on separate drives, you don’t have to download the entire game again. Drag the game over to the correct folders you would have on Windows, then go to download the game. It will see the files and fetch anything you still need)
    • Run the game at least once to make sure your files are created and whatnot (SkyrimPrefs.ini or whatever it is called)
    • once at the main menu, download any of the anniversary edition stuff if you have them
    • Use Nexus Mods modding tool Vortex and use a Collection (NOTE: If you do not have a Premium account, you can use any other program like Mod Organizer 2 or whatever if you want, I have only ever used Vortex, sorry. :/ )
    • Let the mod managers do their thing
    • Once all the mods from the Collection/s are installed, start the game on Windows and make sure you can get in game at least (Not all mods/Collections are created equally!)
    • Log back into Linux and use your preferred File Manager program to go into your Windows drive (Mine is called basic something, I’m away from my computer right now) and move the whole game folder over to your proper Linux folder for your Steam games
    • Test
    • Hopefully profit?