so it took me a few hours and some trials but thanks to my modding experience I was able to get a good special edition loadout going, 10 hours in with no issues. I probably already said this but I'll be using special edition for my actual play through with minimal beautification 

 

here are some pictures of my male khajit, Pu'nani. 

his back story is that he grew up with the teenage mutant ninja turtles because he was mutated in a bizarre off screen accident into a BIG pink cat with superhuman abilities. after being trained by splinter he was suddenly teleported to tamriel because he was chosen by the gods or something. after having a brief affair with mara herself the memories of him in the tmnt world were erased so all is good.

 

now he suplexes enemie, fights in an illegal underground arena and is generally a wild card badass.

his motivation is to romances all women possible 

 

unarmed kill moves are cool lol, I'm having fun.

 

 

 

on to what I'd like to say about vortex 

 

tl;dr, I think it's good but it could be better. I prefer it over nmm and mo though

 

negatives:

 

it lacks detail, for example it doesn't show installation progress or install queue 

still has some bugs, small ones though

struggles to delete mods or doesn't tell you when it does 

it doesn't auto detect programs

bodyslide isn't one if the defaults anymore 

has nothing to do with vortex but no skimpy armors are converted yet lol

it could use BIGGER images on the omod installer pop ups

no longer shows images of the mod page 

you must register applications once per game.

it does NOT save download progress (my biggest issue) 

 

positives:

generally better 

launches quickly 

easy access 

easy to use 

user friendly 

quicker load times 

can open mod folders 

profiles 

simple

can be advanced 

has it's own in manager load order sorter 

displays mods from the nexus(albeit small) which shows more integration 

could easily throw in a steam workshop collections kind of thing if they wanted 

not laggy most if the time 

cute lil tornado 

 

now that I know how to use vortex (after using SE as a guinea pig) I'll be able to start efficiently modding LE (possibly this weekend)

now I'm off to watch documentaries, have a nice day guys and stay hydrated, thanks for reading