Preview August 11, 2026 — now available for Linux
ChatGPT Desktop.
Now on Linux.
Linux users, this one’s for you. ChatGPT, Work, and Codex together in one native desktop experience — a workspace for your projects, your files, your browser workflows, and your agent. Native packages, your distro, your architecture.
01 — the announcement
45 seconds of ~/ coming home
The original launch film from the OpenAI Developer Community announcement — served here exactly as it shipped, poster frame and all.
// original asset: community.openai.com announcement, Aug 11 2026
02 — one native workspace
ChatGPT, Work, and Codex.
One window. Zero Alt-Tab.
The desktop app is designed as a workspace — manage projects, work with files, use browser workflows, and run Codex alongside ChatGPT. Not a wrapper. A workbench.
FEATURE / 01
ChatGPT, at home on your desktop
The full ChatGPT experience, native. Ask, draft, reason, and iterate in a window that belongs to your workflow — not buried in a browser tab between twelve others.
- Always within reach — a dedicated app window, launcher entry and all
- Context that travels — from a question to a plan to a Codex task
- Built for the daily loop — prompt, refine, ship
Refactor the auth middleware to async/await and keep the tests green.
I’ll map the call sites first. There are 3 middleware chains touching session.verify() — want me to hand this to Codex as a scoped task?
Yes — and flag anything that changes the public API.
Done. Task created with API-compat as a hard constraint. Codex will open a reviewable diff when it’s ready. → codex task #1042
FEATURE / 02
Your projects, files, and browser — in the loop
Work mode turns the app into mission control for real work: the project you’re on, the files it touches, and the browser workflows that go with them, side by side with the conversation.
- Project workspaces — keep each effort contained and resumable
- File-aware — work with the actual tree, not pasted snippets
- Browser workflows — research and references live next to the work
FEATURE / 03
Codex, running alongside you
The coding agent isn’t a plugin or a sidebar afterthought — it’s built in. Hand Codex a task, watch it work your repo, and review the diff before anything lands.
- Task-scoped agents — clear briefs, reviewable outcomes
- Repo-native — reads your tree, runs your tests
- You stay the reviewer — nothing merges without your eyes
03 — install
Every distro. Every arch.
No hide-and-seek.
Some launch sites only show you the download for the OS you’re browsing from. That’s not how Linux users work. Here is the whole matrix — pick your row, copy your command, done.
// all packages are served from the official destination: openai.com/codex — the commands below install what you download there
sudo apt install ./chatgpt-desktop_*_amd64.deb
| Distribution | Versions | Arch | Package | Install command | Copy |
|---|
Download the package for your row from the official page, then run your command.
Download at openai.com/codex04 — from the source
“Linux users, this one’s for you! 🐧”
— “Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview”, OpenAI Developer Community, Aug 11 2026
The community asked for a download page that doesn’t guess their OS for them. This concept page answers with a full matrix, honest commands, and respect for the people who actually read man pages. Feedback on the real preview lives in the thread.
Your terminal was
already home.
ChatGPT, Work, and Codex — one native desktop experience, now in preview for Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora.