Opera GX Lands on Linux
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jediknight36 last edited byThank 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!
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champy10 last edited by
@jediknight36: there is, you can use paru to have it
use this command
paru -S opera-gx-stable
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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.
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rakeshsingh 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.
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Asshole-Sniffer last edited by Asshole-SnifferI 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.
