If you want, I looked up a step-by-step Youtube tutorial on how to set up Mod Organizer on Linux after I saw yohr post. Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/OEbZ3hNcoRg

Also, top comment mentions that the process is different if Steam and Proton Tricks are installed as Flatpaks. Apparently you’ll then need to give them permission to access the MO2 folder.

Hope this helps, sorry I can’t do more at the moment

Unless you know the hours on a drive, you might get brand new ones, or you might get ones with 50k hours on them. They may also be from the same batch, which isn’t ideal for data durability.

If it helps, my strategy is to use RAID6 to handle up to 2 drive failures, and apart from the initial 4 drives needed to initially create the array, I just add another when I need more space. Then even if I get drives with sequential serial numbers, they’re going to have differing amount of life used.

Also, always keep a couple spare drives for quick swapping. Especially with RAID6 given how long rebuilding the array can take

Thank you for the feedback

What are you considering buying?

Mainly just the HDD’s. I already have a server, but having a bunch of extra drives for cheap is really tempting, especially since I haven’t filled out all of the bays

For the sake of the community, I ask that whoever is the one to help to post the issue/fix if possible in case it helps others in the future.

I’d offer to help myself, but I’ve only modded Skyrim on Windows so far. Some people on here have done it in Linux and thus are more qualified

Mods are the top 25 most downloaded

Some of those mods are old and outdated. Not sure which off the top of my head though.

Did you install all the dependencies for these mods? Nexus should have a grey tab labelled ‘Requirements’ to link to the necessary pages. Also, some of the mods requure SKSE (Skyrim Script Extender) which is on a different site and uses a different install process.

Also, did you boot the game up before trying to start modding it? At least on Windows you need to do that first because the game generates some .dll files you need for it to work.

One more thing: which version of Skyrim did you get from Steam/GOG?

“Skyrim”, also known as “Skyrim Legendary Edition” or “LE” for short, is a 32-bit game and is listed as just “Skyrim” on Nexus Mods.

“Skyrim Special Edition”, also known as “SSE”, and “Skyrim Anniversary Edition”, also known as “AE”, are the 64-bit versions, and mods for them are listed under “Skyrim Special Edition” on Nexus Mods.

Also, SSE and AE are the same thing, assuming SSE is updated to the newest version. The only difference is that SSE comes with 4 free Creation Club mods, while AE gives you access to “all” Creation Club content.

Long story short, if you bought the 64-bit version and are trying to install mods from the 32-bit version (or vice versa), a lot of mods won’t work

Sounds like you need to switch to Mod Organizer. Once you know how to use it, you have all the tools you need to diagnose issues

I’d like to see a cross-platform game-agnostic mod manager

Tbf, Mod Organizer is mostly that

Never went back to it because I didn’t want to go through the exercise of maintaining it.

You shouldn’t be actively trying to maintain it. Some mods and patchers like DynDoLOD will break if you change your load order during a playthrough.

Best practice is to get it set up and stick with it until you’re ready to start a new game

The original DS released almost 21 years ago. Because of that, the patent is now in the public domain, hence why products like this can be sold now

TBF, the dude has made millions off the game, and he doesn’t make the updates paid dlc. He just keeps adding to SDV because he loves it

I have yet to get an online service to accept the gift card I purchased for thus

Not only that, Mod Organizer is way better for massive custom mod lists, and it already works on Linux. The only thing that Vortex has going for it is collections support

but Wikipedia does say that the Deck has HDMI out

No, it has USB 3.0 type-C that’s capable of video output

The patent troll you’re referring to is SCUD (fuck those guys and fuck their owners, Corsair).

Thankfully, Valve won the appeal in their lawsuit a few years back and the patent is no longer valid. Unfortunately, the damage was already done

No, don’t rrmove it from the list. Make a note acknowledging the issue so others see it

Or implying that their behavior reflects poorly on the entire blahaj community

That user is a different person from the first one that responded.

The blahaj user’s only contribution to the conversation was that snarky comment, and I brought it up because I’ve noticed a few users from that instance do that this past week, and not just to me. Like I said, I expect that behavior from hexbear, as blahaj users are usually nice to interact with.

And on the blowing up at the original commenter, I’m tired of people using me for their own self-gratification. And if you’re not actually reading someone’s question before saying something, that’s generally what it is. Hopefully they learned to not make that mustake in the future

You wrote a post with a title that their comment helps with,

Post titles just aren’t great at detailing the real issue when you need to provide context. It’s frustrating whem someone doesn’t actually read the body of the post, because then the comments can be filled up with people answering the wrong question. Then someone that can actually answer the question might skip the post because there’s already a bunch of comments under it.

If you’re going to help, it’s better to actually read through the provided context. Otherwise it’s more likely to just end up being self-gratification.

It’s kinda like the people who give up right-of-way at stop signs. Sure, it makes that person feel better about themselves, but the confusion just leads to everyone at the stop taking longer to get through the intersection.

Thank you for the detailed explanation

It sounds like my friends and I are better off just having 1 primary server running everything, and pushing backups to 1 or 2 other servers that can be spun up if/when things go wrong with the primary server.

Read the rest of my post, asshole. I was asking about server cluster software.

This type of pointless snark is something I’d expect from hexbear, not blahaj

The game has to be made for it

Just for clarity, do you mean the game has to be made for self-hosted servers, or do you mean it has to be made to handle self-hosted servers across a cluster?

The former is already a thing with Minecraft, 7 Days to Die, etc. The latter… Yeah I’d have to do digging on that