It's time to start crying out.
This morning, OpenAI officially announced that the ChatGPT desktop application for Linux has officially entered the preview phase.
In the world of developers, the importance of Linux cannot be overstated. The vast majority of servers run on Linux, with cloud native, back-end, AI training and deployment taking place on a daily basis.
However, OpenAI's native AI capabilities have long been absent from Linux systems, and desktop clients are not always covered.
Following the release of this preview, users can directly use ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex, on supported Linux systems, to process project and browser workflows in their familiar working and development environments.
It should be noted that the Linux distribution version is very complex, and the ChatGPT desktop is only available for the following Linux distributions:
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS
Debian 13
Fedora 43 and 44
Users can go to the Codex download page to install x64 or ARM64 versions of the.deb or.rpm software packages.
Although compatibility is limited, at least it's a good start.
Linux users are finally waiting.
The comments are all applause from Linux users.
As early as 2024, the official OpenAI community posted a "request for a Linux desktop application", to which many responded.
One netizen even ran the ChatGPT desktop directly on Omarchy. Omarchy is not on the official support list currently released by OpenAI, and his solution is to directly get Codex to help adapt and install.deb packages.
He also pointed out that at this stage, Computer Use on Linux seems to be still largely focused on browser automation such as Chrome, and that there is a gap in the ability to control the entire desktop environment compared to macOS.
Have you used it?