OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux
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OpenAI just released a ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in preview. That fills the last big desktop gap, and it lands after Anthropic already shipped one.
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OpenAI has finally brought ChatGPT to Linux desktops, releasing a dedicated app in preview this week and opening it worldwide on Tuesday.
The company says Linux was one of the most-requested platforms for the desktop app. With this launch, ChatGPT and Codex now span every major desktop operating system, at least in OpenAI’s telling.
The app is not for every Linux machine. OpenAI says it supports desktop versions of Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43 and 44. It also says those base distributions should cover a range of downstream desktop flavors that build on them.
Linux users will be able to use ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex through the new app. That puts OpenAI in the Linux desktop game, but not first: Anthropic released a Claude desktop app for Linux about a month earlier, with support for Ubuntu 22.04 or later and Debian 12 or later.
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OpenAI spent a long time ignoring Linux, which is a curious move when the loudest power users are often the ones on Linux. Shipping a preview now is better than pretending the gap didn’t exist, but it also hands Anthropic an easy brag. The larger pattern is simple: the AI app race is getting less about models and more about who shows up where users already work.
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