{"id":256940,"date":"2026-08-11T19:15:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/openai-launches-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:15:35","slug":"openai-launches-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/openai-launches-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ChatGPT is on desktops across the world, but there\u2019s been one place where it\u2019s been lacking: the Linux community. Certain sectors of the open source developer community <a href=\"https:\/\/community.openai.com\/t\/request-for-official-linux-desktop-app-for-chatgpt\/1029344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">have been clamoring<\/a> for OpenAI to bring its chatbot to their neck of the woods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of this week, OpenAI has rectified this oversight, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OpenAI\/status\/2087231350134980830?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">launching<\/a> a dedicated ChatGPT app for Linux.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLinux has been one of the most-requested platforms for the desktop app, and this launch extends ChatGPT and Codex across every major desktop operating system,\u201d the company said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new app, which is being released in preview, will give Linux users the ability to use ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex on a number of different distributions. The release is worldwide, as of Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI says that the distros that will be supported include desktop variants of Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43 and 44. The totality of the Linux community comprises <a href=\"https:\/\/commandlinux.com\/statistics\/most-popular-linux-distributions-market-share\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">hundreds of distributions<\/a>, although the distros that OpenAI has chosen here act as the base for a variety of \u201cdownstream\u201d desktop <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/desktop\/flavors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">distros or \u201cflavors,\u201d<\/a> which should also be compatible with OpenAI\u2019s apps as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI is a little behind Anthropic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/07\/claude-desktop-linux-beta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">which released<\/a> a Claude desktop app for Linux about a month ago. Anthropic\u2019s app <a href=\"https:\/\/code.claude.com\/docs\/en\/desktop-linux\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">is available<\/a> for Ubuntu 22.04 or later and Debian 12 or later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/08\/11\/openai-launches-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT is on desktops across the world, but there\u2019s been one place where it\u2019s been lacking: the Linux community. Certain sectors of the open source developer community have been clamoring for OpenAI to bring its chatbot to their neck of the woods. As of this week, OpenAI has rectified this oversight, launching a dedicated ChatGPT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}