Dundee Lad

…you are now dead to me!

After weeks and weeks and weeks of futile attempts to get this fucking program to install and run on Linux, I have finally given up and sent it to Oblivion.

For, you see, something better has come along. Folks, I present: Amethyst Mod Manager. A native Linux mod manager that works along the lines of MO2 but actually works a thousand times better.

As an example of what I mean, MO2 makes you manually install SKSE into the Skyrim directory, whereas Amethyst allows you to install automatically the way you do every other mod. Same goes for Part 2 of the Engine Fixes that required you to manually drop the files into the Skyrim directory–Amethyst does it for you.

Of course, in Windows this is a much easier procedure than it would be in the psycho circus that is Linux, so thank fuck sanity prevailed with that decision.

So anyway, apologies to anyone who may have kept an eye out for the promised Mod Organizer 2 tutorial I was writing–and I was writing it and taking screenshots to illustrate procedures–but that all got lost when I deleted my Windows partitions and switched to Linux full time.

Slowly but surely I will create a series about using Mod Organizer 2 for all your Fallout and Skyrim modding needs. Slowly. Starting…now.

The first thing you have to do is to always save any mod download in an appropriately named sub-folder/sub-directory. For example, a mod that is a Quest & Adventure should be saved in a folder of that title. Likewise, a bug fix should be in a folder named “Bug Fixes”. Now, this isn’t a hard and fast rule because sometimes you’ll download a mod and decide it needs to go into a differently named folder. Again, an example might be a patch for a custom follower that the creator uploaded to the Patches section of the Nexus but which I would save in the same sub-folder as the main files for the follower, so on my hard-drive that looks likes this: \SkyrimModding\FOLLOWERS & COMPANIONS\Remiel\

Now, this might seem a bit anal retentive and annoying but trust me on this, you do not want to lump every mod in the same folder because six months later you will regret that decision.