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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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                            • linuxrocks2000
                              linuxrocks2000 last edited by

                              @Bati it's trivial enough to port resource code to a Unix environment, if they're using C or C++ it would just mean some preprocessor definitions and well-written interfaces. If they don't already have the code structured properly, that's a whole 'nother problem entirely...

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                              • linuxrocks2000
                                linuxrocks2000 @gmgarciam last edited by

                                @gmgarciam Ooo, can we get a link to this GitHub? Open-source competition for Opera GX time!

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                                • drrootkit
                                  drrootkit @linuxrocks2000 last edited by

                                  @linuxrocks2000 Not Chromium, but we have Firefox GX (https://github.com/Godiesc/firefox-gx). Doesn't have the RAM limiters or GX mods, but just the Skin. For sound themes and music, you can use the GX Mods Firefox Addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gx-mods/). It doesn't have themes or wallpapers however.

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                                  • CaptainLian
                                    CaptainLian last edited by

                                    Just finished migrating to Linux mint. Sadly since Opera GX isn't supported. I'll just be using Firefox, or Brave from now on.

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                                    • xanaddams
                                      xanaddams @CaptainLian last edited by

                                      @captainlian I'm currently using regular Opera. It works well enough. But doesn't match the aesthetics I was going for that were very much GX inspired. Also, the GPU and RAM controls are pretty much the only thing missing.

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                                      • xanaddams
                                        xanaddams @gmgarciam last edited by

                                        @gmgarciam thorium browser is a chromium one that has every tweak available to boost it and it runs on a fraction of the power of even chromium. I use it as a alternate to chrome when I don't use regular Opera. If we could tweak up this to start looking like, and then eventually running equal to Opera gx, we'd have something.

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                                        • CaptainLian
                                          CaptainLian @xanaddams last edited by

                                          @xanaddams The dark mode, theming, sounds, and especially the memory limiters is what got me into Opera GX. Sadly all of those doesn't exists in the normal opera.

                                          And there's only a handful of Chromium-based browsers I would be willing to use, so I went back to firefox.

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                                          • DrakEmono
                                            DrakEmono last edited by

                                            I just got the steam deck, but in addition to play with games, I want to be able to use it for work as well when I'm moving, as I really can use it as a mini laptop for Linux. And yeah, one of the first web browsers I looked for was Opera GX... So +1 for Opera GX here!!!

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