Modding Bethesda games on Linux
Getting started
First and fore most to due to variety in natures of distros and gpu drivers as well as kernals, this guide may not work %100 of the time reliably. Do your best to learn your spoecific system and identifying the root of your issues. It's trusted that if you're using Linux you will already be familiar with many aspects of this, such as what is WINE or Proton.
Lutris
Lutris is an Open Source gaming platform for Linux. It installs and launches games so you can start playing without the hassle of setting up your games. Connect your games from GOG, Steam, Battle.net, Origin, Uplay and many other sources to run on any Linux powered gaming machine. Lutris uses community contributed installation scripts to provide an optimal experience and setup. Once installed, games are launched with programs called runners. Those runners include RetroArch, Dosbox, customized Wine versions among others.
Download instructions https://lutris.net/downloads/
Vortex on linux
To install vortex on linux using Lutris, you must keep two things in mind, turn off your internet connection during installation (To forbid it from auto updating itself, so you can turn that feature off) and that it must be installed on the same drive or partition as the game you want it to mod. https://lutris.net/games/vortex-mod-manager/
Proton Data Base
The goal of ProtonDB is to gather reports from other gamers as they test games with Proton on Linux and provide aggregate scores of how well games perform. A growing pool of suggestions provides tweaks that you can try to get games working while Proton continues development. In addition to this, you may explore the Steam game catalog on this site to browse and discover a wide range of titles that were previously unavailable for use on Linux.
Specific games will need their settings tweaked and adjusted, if a game is just not working for you, consider checking the db and seeing what version of WINE, Proton, or Lutris that they are using.
https://www.protondb.com/app/365720 (skyrim)
https://www.protondb.com/app/377160 (Fallout 4)