Linux developers waited two years for an official ChatGPT client. It showed up on August 11 — and Anthropic beat OpenAI to the same desktop by a full month.
What you actually get
One app, three products: ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex. Native .deb and .rpm packages, x64 and ARM64, covering Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43/44. The installer wires in an OpenAI repo so updates come through apt like any other system package. Arch isn’t official, but AUR builds already exist.
Codex is the reason this matters. It’s a coding agent with a GUI now — open a local project, edit files, run tests, work the Git repo, execute commands with your permission. Not a chat window that spits out snippets you paste somewhere else.
What’s missing
Native Computer Use didn’t ship. No driving GIMP or OpenOffice, no Appshots, no Record & Replay, no voice requests that touch desktop apps. Everything outside the in-app browser is off.
The API angle
The desktop app adds no new API. Codex already has a CLI and a TypeScript SDK — that’s where you script it into CI, cron jobs, or your own agent harness. The GUI is for humans; the SDK is for pipelines.
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