[Request]Opera GX on Linux
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xanaddams 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 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 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 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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VidimusWolf last edited by
No support for Linux... Disappointing, but I hope they are working on it! Will keep using Chrome for now. Thing is, my personal PC runs on Windows, but unless I can migrate to a single browser for all my devices, my work laptop included (running Linux), then I just can't justify migrating to Opera GX.
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MyTricker0 last edited by
someone made a fork from firefox to look exactelly like opera gx
your welcome:https://github.com/Godiesc/firefox-gx
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gmgarciam last edited by
@linuxrocks2000 when it comes to performance, I feel that it comes down to whether the browser supports hardware acceleration and if the pages you're browsing have a lot of ads.
So on Linux, chrome/chromium hardware acceleration isn't always a given. Or at least it wasn't, I haven't checked if things have changed but before you would have to build Chromium with hardware acceleration enabled.
As to the ads, the browser would require to have an ad blocker automatically built in.
But yeah, I've been pretty busy with work. I haven't checked out Firefox GX, but those Firefox-gx guys should add my suggestions if they haven't already.
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tuxkarr last edited by
i dont have money for windows or mac i have linux and i like opera gx but on wine its worse
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cubeman329 last edited by
I would also like Opera GX for Linux, as well as 64 bit AMD and ARM packages.
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shiken last edited by
it's been 4 years waiting for Opera GX for Linux and 4 year of pleading. It seem opera is not listening to it's user, it's like they don't care or they don't have the ability to do so. what beef do you have with Linux and Linux users in general that you are not making one for Linux.
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Eratedkrill last edited by
uhh... you may guessed wrong. opera GX is only avaible on Win,Mac,Android and IOS. but theres a solution. Launch the terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T. Install the Wine package using APT. The package name for the x86 version is wine32 and wine64 for x64 sudo apt-get install wine32. sudo apt-get install wine64. Enter y/yes when the installation prompt comes up. but if your not a scripter, make sure that you comuter has 32-bits or 64-bits. then do this steps. open terminal by pressing Ctrl+alt+T. then type "sudo apt update" and press ↵Enter, This will update the software repository.
For 64-bit systems: "sudo apt install wine64"
For 32-bit systems: "sudo apt install wine32"
If you are using Fedora or Redhat, install Wine using "kbd sudo dnf install winehq-stable". Type y to confirm the installation. When prompted to enter "y" or "n," press "y" to confirm the installation. Type in "winecfg" and press ↵ Enter. This creates a Windows home directory for Wine. Look for a confirmation message that says something like "created the configuration directory 'home/name/.wine'". If prompted to install any missing packages here, click Install in the prompt window and wait for the packages to install. Select a Windows version and click Apply. Click the "Windows Version" drop-down box at the bottom of the "Wine configuration" window, then click the version of Windows (e.g., Windows10) that you want to use. Then click Apply in the lower-right corner. Click OK. This button is at the bottom of the window. Clicking it closes the Window. then you can install any windows pograms (.EXE). install opera GX that you can find it on the downloads, and then right click "OperaGXsetup.exe", and then click "open with". then scroll untill you find "Winhlp32". then continue using the installation pogress. and then enjoy ur Opera GX! (this works well in Ubuntu) -
linuxrocks2000 last edited by
@eratedkrill not only is this is a well-known solution, it's a bad one. This is for a number of complex reasons under the hood, but basically Wine isn't perfect - it doesn't have the same performance as native binaries and is missing a lot of support.
As a Fedora user I can tell you that's definitely wrong - the package iswine-core(and has separate i686 and x86_64 builds available, so you don't manually install wine64), and we just usesudolike everyone else
What we want is a Linux build (or at least source code so we can build it ourselves and write patches for individual distros), for native performance and fewer bugs. If the only way to get GX is to run it in Wine, I'm just gonna use Firefox.
