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    [Request]Opera GX on Linux

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    • wyattthomas
      wyattthomas last edited by

      I just switched to Garuda and am not happy that my favorite browser is not on there! Opera please support GX on Linux!!

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      • linuxrocks2000
        linuxrocks2000 last edited by

        How is this still not a thing???? Every browser worth using has Linux support - I suppose the Opera team has willfully consigned GX to that pit where the likes of Internet Explorer, Safari, and Netscape rest in hated obscurity....

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        • psfal
          psfal last edited by

          No GX for Linux? Pretty weak...you're leaving out a huge segment of the internet community.

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          • linuxrocks2000
            linuxrocks2000 last edited by

            Other Opera on Linux posts keep getting locked lol, I think opera just doesn't care about their userbase at this point. Probably run by Microsoft Lackeys, eh?

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            • Permonik
              Permonik last edited by

              Adding my voice here - please make opera gx port for linux - it does not make sense to not have it in 2023

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              • gleycon
                gleycon @wightna last edited by

                @wightna said in [Request]Opera GX on Linux:

                Sign the Petition to get Opera GX on Linux
                Click here (change.org):
                https://chng.it/2wxvtZZhyN

                I signed it guys, let's all sign it!!

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                • DoubleDot
                  DoubleDot last edited by

                  As a developer that has only access to Linux for various reasons, i am forced to boot a VM only to do my testings with Opera gx, as all others Browsers are available directly. Which is a significant testing overhead that just pushes me to say 'sorry i'll fix this opera GX bug in 10 days alongside all other bugs on opera GX i've collected during this period to be time worthy.'. And this despite the bug being easy or hard to fix, just because it is annoying to have to work with VMs.
                  Hence why i'd ask for a OperaGX support on linux

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                  • linuxrocks2000
                    linuxrocks2000 @DoubleDot last edited by

                    @doubledot Please have ChatGPT or something edit your messages before you post them, reading your post took far too much effort.
                    Regardless, I agree; us developers are heavily assf***** by Opera's refusal to do an easy Linux build. Hell, they could use all sorts of trickery to publish enough code for us to create our own Linux deploys (thus eliminating the need to support many platforms; they would just have to give us some object files to link), without letting us modify it. It's not hard to support the most popular operating system in the world.

                    Personally I would be willing to maintain RPMs for Opera, and I'm sure there are plenty who would do the DEBs and whatever magic Arch uses. The Nix users would have a blast (wait, do they already have it? Sounds like the kinda magic spell Nix users are so well known for...)

                    Come on, Opera dev team, show a lil' love and support the community! We promise to behave!

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                    • howicankillu
                      howicankillu last edited by

                      i'm linux user. i love opera browser... but i hate opera community 😑

                      i need opera GX for my arch 💔

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                      • gmgarciam
                        gmgarciam last edited by

                        If Opera is open source then we should just be able to recreate it ourselves. I'm sure they have a github page or something.

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                        • joshlangley
                          joshlangley @gmgarciam last edited by

                          @gmgarciam Chromium, the browser base that Opera is built on, is indeed open source. Opera, however, is not. Some small parts of it have been made partially open source, but Opera GX is not open source, so no building from source unfortunately. (https://forums.opera.com/topic/43712/is-the-opera-open-source) If it was open source, we would see Linux builds all over the place by now.

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                          • leocg
                            leocg Moderator Volunteer @gmgarciam last edited by

                            @gmgarciam Opera is not open source, only its Chromium part is.

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                            • linuxrocks2000
                              linuxrocks2000 @gmgarciam last edited by

                              @gmgarciam It don't got to be open source. They can publish LLVM IR, un-linked object files (for us to link on different platforms), etc; nearly-compiled formats that don't allow modification (no more than a regular executable file does, at least) but do allow distribution.

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                              • gmgarciam
                                gmgarciam last edited by

                                Come on guys, this is Linux... if Opera isn't giving us our own browser. Then we can make our own... simple as that. They based their browser off of Chromium so it's not like their browser is this magical thing... it's just a a Chromium variant with some Opera spice, that's all.

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                                • sora4popla
                                  sora4popla @gmgarciam last edited by sora4popla

                                  @gmgarciam my guy if it was so easy someone would've made it already. Try developing a whole browser (even if it's just "chromium with extra spice") for free, with every single feature GX has, and compatible with opera sync.
                                  Making noise here isn't much, but even that it's more efficient than what you're proposing.
                                  Maybe try modding opera one, but i don't really know how feasible is that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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                                  • gmgarciam
                                    gmgarciam last edited by

                                    Well, I will try to do something in my spare time. I'm a videogame developer so I'm already pretty busy. Google Chrome on Linux has worked pretty well for me for the past 12 plus years. But if it's possible to come up with a modded Chromium that offers boosted performance than I am down to tinker with that. I'll add any updates to my github. I'll keep you guys posted.

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                                    • Pash-linux-pls
                                      Pash-linux-pls last edited by

                                      As quite a long time linux user, i made the account just so i could ask pls OperaGX for linux

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                                      • ModdedInstall2
                                        ModdedInstall2 last edited by

                                        Congrats - you guys just lost a potential user because of the lack of a Linux build.

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                                        • Vioar
                                          Vioar last edited by

                                          Is for Opera really so hard to make one single .appimage or flatpak file for linux, when they already made opera gx for android, which is linux distro, and for mac, what is unix like linux? If they will do it, they get really much of new users. There are around 30 milions of linux user and I think at least half of them want to use opera GX.

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                                          • Bati
                                            Bati @Vioar last edited by

                                            @vioar
                                            OperaGX. As far as I know, it is only available on Windows, the Iphone and Android versions are very different, they only share the name and design.
                                            I think the biggest drawback to make OperaGX on another OS is the resource limiter, they must have built all the code based on how windows handles system resources.

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