OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

In Brief

ChatGPT is connected desktops crossed the world, but there’s been 1 spot wherever it’s been lacking: the Linux community. Certain sectors of the unfastened root developer assemblage have been clamoring for OpenAI to bring its chatbot to their cervix of the woods.

As of this week, OpenAI has rectified this oversight, launching a dedicated ChatGPT app for Linux.

“Linux has been 1 of the most-requested platforms for the desktop app, and this motorboat extends ChatGPT and Codex crossed each large desktop operating system,” the institution said Tuesday.

The caller app, which is being released successful preview, volition springiness Linux users the quality to usage ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex connected a fig of antithetic distributions. The merchandise is worldwide, arsenic of Tuesday.

OpenAI says that the distros that volition beryllium supported see desktop variants of Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43 and 44. The totality of the Linux assemblage comprises hundreds of distributions, though the distros that OpenAI has chosen present enactment arsenic the basal for a assortment of “downstream” desktop distros oregon “flavors,” which should besides beryllium compatible with OpenAI’s apps arsenic a result.

OpenAI is simply a small down Anthropic, which released a Claude desktop app for Linux astir a period ago. Anthropic’s app is available for Ubuntu 22.04 oregon aboriginal and Debian 12 oregon later.

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