Penumbra VS NoClippy

you need penumbra if you don't have it yet and use that to install the mod

You can find various body edits on https://www.xivmodarchive.com/ . In order to use them, the easiest way is to use the XIVLauncher (https://github.com/goatcorp/FFXIVQuickLauncher) which enables the addon system. With that, download the addon "Penumbra" to use those edited bodies ingame (https://github.com/xivdev/Penumbra).

Runtime loader (Custom clothes, animation): https://github.com/xivdev/Penumbra (a year old)

You'll need Penumbra, which in itself requires Dalamud ala the FFXIVQuickLauncher tool. You can install FFXIVQuickLauncher via an installer and here's a video for installing Penumbra.

Download that, also download textools https://www.ffxiv-textools.net/ OR penumbra https://github.com/xivdev/Penumbra (this one also needs XIVLauncher) and then import the file you downloaded from nexusmods, and that's it.

Penumbra

Penumbra is a quicklauncher plugin (link) that allows you to non-destructively apply mods.

From what I understand that was fixed a few versions ago. https://github.com/xivdev/Penumbra/releases/tag/0.4.6.7

Should be this one I think.

Here's a comment from NoClippy's dev copy-pasted from the plugin's source code:

Noclippy

Not sure about XIVAlexander, but NoClippy works for me on linux.

do i need a special version of it, i dont see any encounter info on the one i have atm, just an on/off toggle, using this for reference

There is also the more recent NoClippy for XIVLauncher that doesn't require the ping plugin. It results in marginally longer animation locks than XIVAlexander, but this is more due to it not overcompensating.