Cant get Vortex mod manager to work

I bought Fallout 4VR and its kinda broken without mods.
No matter what i do i cant get vortex to run with steamtinkerlaunch.

Things i tried(roughly in order if it matters)

steamtinkerlaunch vortex install
i installed dot net , flashed some other windows but vortex didnt start at the end

╰─λ steamtinkerlaunch vortex start
sed: -e expression #1, char 0: no previous regular expression
sob, 27 kwi 2024, 10:54:10 CEST INFO - startVortex - Starting Vortex without options

then i tried cleaning
rm -rf /dev/shm/steamtinkerlaunch/*
and repeat of both install and start, same result

then i tried “Install” and “start” via gui after adding steamtinkerlaunch to fallout4vr command line in steam. Same reslults, but this time I had a window asking me for which proton version to install- didn’t see it when run from console.
but at the end vortex didn’t start

Switched to steamtinkerlaunch-git and tried all of it again, same results.

Can’t even figure out if or where vortex is installed- just to remove it and make a clean install.

Any suggestions what to try next

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EDIT: thried switching to different proton versions and installing vortex on them. It’s either fastest install ever or it’s just not installing at all - i see only 2-3 small windows blinking for split of a second on “Install”

What finally worked:
rm -rf ~/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/vortex

and running everything via gui - maybe it does not like fish? xd

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just so you know all this does is remove the default configuration files for steamtinkerlaunch - default as in, what your .config directory contains when you create a user (launch the application for the first time?)

Please reboot as the swoosh indicates.

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