In Brief. OpenAI has launched a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, addressing long-standing demand from the open source developer community. The app gives Linux users access to ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex across major desktop operating systems.\n\nThe app, released in preview worldwide as of Tuesday, supports a number of distributions: desktop variants of Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43 and 44.

These distributions act as bases for many downstream flavors, ensuring broad compatibility.\n\nOpenAI is slightly behind Anthropic, which released a Claude desktop app for Linux about a month ago. Anthropic's app is available for Ubuntu 22.04 or later and Debian 12 or later.