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sonic2kk / steamtinkerlaunch

Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs
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Option to change place for the prefix #994

Closed LinuxfarmerHH closed 10 months ago

LinuxfarmerHH commented 10 months ago

Steamtinkerlaunch installs pretty well here, included a running Vortex that is unable to "Deploy a mod", where all solutions from it's helper tool are not available. Reason: The Steam Library is on a physical different disk drive and no type of links can be deployed from the default prefix home.

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Offer some way to change the prefix home, searched the Wiki and got no clue how to do that. -->

sonic2kk commented 10 months ago

Do you mean change the Vortex prefix location? If so, it can be changed from the global menu or manually in global config file config.vdf (at ~/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/global.conf) by changing VORTEXCOMPDATA.

However, deployment should work across different drives, because STL creates the staging folder and uses hard link deployment. It should be at the drive root:

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Unless the Steam Client itself is not installed to the boot drive, I have no idea what would happen in that case, I have never seen that before.

But, Vortex is unmaintained and I no longer really accept Vortex issues because no one who uses Vortex can help with development.

I would double check the Vortex deployment folder. It could be that this is just yet another thing no longer working with Vortex under Wine. I implore you not to use it :-)

sonic2kk commented 10 months ago

I should also note for courtesy that Vortex support in STL will be removed soon, for many reasons:

  1. No one has stepped up to help out with maintaining it (Honestly, very few people help out with STL, and it's very sad)
  2. It's going to be replaced with a native Linux tool that uses an entirely different stack (C# + .NET, not NodeJS)
  3. I hate Vortex. Like, I really hate Vortex. I refused to use it on Windows, I refused to use it when it was Nexus Mod Manager, I always tell people not to use it, and I end up doing the same here most of the time on Linux.
  4. I have decided the mental health strain is just not worth it, I have tried and in the end, I'm not willing to lose sleep over a tool I'm supposed to develop for fun in my free time.