Opera GX Lands on Linux

[alesanaclub]

alesanaclub last edited by

Recently, the updates have been consuming a significant amount of CPU and RAM.

[FletcherTime]

FletcherTime last edited by FletcherTime

Can't watch HBO Max (likely Peacock too) due to their DRM even with user-agent spoofing. I don't think this package has the codecs needed. When will this be patched? Stuck on firefox for now.

[Borjo]

Borjo last edited by

I use EndeavourOS distro, which is based on Arch. Arch is growing so much, so why isn’t there a version of Opera GX for Arch distros?

[rickjfer]

rickjfer last edited by

Maravilha! Até que enfim!!!

[amibert]

amibert last edited by

Please add Arch support.

[Rhuanprof97]

Rhuanprof97 last edited by

took you guys long enough but thanks for doing a linux version

[jediknight36]

jediknight36 last edited by

Thank you so much for getting us a Linux version! I just downloaded this on POP and it seems to be working great, but I expected as much as its just a flavor of Ubuntu IIRC. I am wanting to switch to Bazzite or CashyOS but it looks like this wont work on Arch. I know you cant support all distros, but Arch is the base for three of the biggest gaming Linux distros out there. It would be fantastic to get Arch support.

Thank you again! Keep up the good work!

[champy10]

champy10 @jediknight36 last edited by

@jediknight36: there is, you can use paru to have it

use this command

paru -S opera-gx-stable

[rakeshsingh]

rakeshsingh last edited by

As one of the many people who requested GX on Linux, thank you to the developers for working on this. Pleased to say that it has been working fine on my Manjaro installation using the package in AUR.

[user2257]

user2257 last edited by

does it have suport on garuda linux?

[rakeshsingh]

rakeshsingh @user2257 last edited by

@user2257 It's in the AUR (opera-gx-stable-ffmpeg-codecs-bin, opera-gx-stable), but I don't think it's in the Chaotic AUR yet.

[Felixgamer27]

Felixgamer27 last edited by

peak update, hope to see full compatibility soon

[Asshole-Sniffer]

Asshole-Sniffer last edited by Asshole-Sniffer

I plan on getting a USB stick to flash a Linux distro and have my laptop dual boot Windows 10 and likely Linux mint due to the age of the hardware. Though, I've been looking into what Linux users tend to say, and many have security and privacy concerns surrounding the Opera browser.

On Windows 10, I used this cover your tracks website by Electronic Frontier Foundation to test how private this browser is, and the results say: "Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking".

In the following section:
"Blocking tracking ads? Yes
Blocking invisible trackers? Yes
Protecting you from fingerprinting? Your browser has a unique fingerprint"
To me, it's equivalent to any other Chromium based web browser.

Unsure if results would differ on Linux systems, however.