I’m going to making the plunge to Linux on my main gaming PC soon and I’m trying to make the final decision between Bazzite or Fedora. I’ve done enough customization on my Steam Deck that I know Bazzite will handle almost all of my use cases for this system, with one potential loose end.

I’m getting back into Skyrim modding and am planning to pull my portable Mod Organizer 2 install over. I’ve seen guides on it for Linux, so that’s not as much of a concern. But, I’m wondering if it’ll be a problem with Bazzite, as it’s an immutable distro.

I have 3 drives on the system: 1 for the OS and 2 for storage. The MO2 install is very large between its internal downloads folder and tons of installed texture mods. Because of that, most of the modding will be done off of one of the storage drives. I’ll also need some extra software like Microsoft C++ compiler.

Am I going to be fighting Bazzite the entire time with this setup? I’d prefer to run Bazzite if it won’t be a hassle, but I’m not opposed to running Fedora if need be

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Games installed through e.g. steam aren’t affected by that

    I’m not worried about Skyrim not working, I’m worried about Mod Organizer 2 not working

    • Classy Hatter@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      MO2, in this situation, is just another Steam “game”. You just add MO2 as a non-Steam game to your Steam library. Set your favourite Proton flavour as the compatibility tool for it, and then figure out how to configure the Proton prefix to make everything work.

      Another possibility is to use Jackify to install a modlist for Skyrim. Will be easier, but costs one month’s Nexus Mods Premium subscription. Jackify also supports flatpak versions of Steam.