[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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illogicalfallacy last edited by
yea its safe to say its not happening! if they were working on it, they would say something!
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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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illogicalfallacy last edited by
@shiken your far more loyal to opera than i am my friend!!! i took the hint after i wrote on here and then continued to read a few more posts i got the exact picture of what was going on, i went to my windows machine and removed every trace of that browser from the system. requested that my account and all of its information be deleted. i made this account just to be able to write a post on here. there is no reason why there shouldnt already be a linux version of the browser available. no excuse at all. i mean, unless there is something that they are trying to hide and are afraid to make the version available for linux, i dont know and frankly im passed the point of even caring, i loved the browser, i tried the thing by mistake one time and it really worked great, then i started to hear some chatter that opera is owned by a Chinese company or maybe it was the chinese government or they reported to the chinese government and were like to play fast and loose with their users data, i personally could careless about my data but when companies try to do things like that behind the scenes and they almost push you into consenting to things that you really dont have to consent to (like signing up for an account to post in here) they ask for your consent for your email and to contact you and consent for them to be able to use their data, and if you click submit without checking the consent boxes it tells you that you need to consent to be able to move forward but if you just click cancel, it shuts down that popup window that everyone is already so used to just blindly clicking i consent and i agree to just to get on with whatever they are trying to do that they will do it almost without thinking, the fact that these guys go as far as to continually popping that message box up when u dont check off i consent but click on submit it should just let you go on signing in or onto your account, the fact that they keep jamming that box right in your face making people think that there is no way around it makes me dislike these guys and their product even more, i clicked cancel on that box because im not going for their crap and other people shouldnt either, look at the amount of people in here that love the product and are practically begging these guys to make it available for linux and these guys cant even as much respond to a few people or make a statement regarding loyal users of their product, is disgusting and therefore i am completely done with them! i know they dont read anything on here and they definitely dont respond to anyone, im content on doing the same, moving on like they dont even exist anymore. if only more people would do it, im sure some already have. ill keep my fingers crossed for those people still waiting with a glimmer of hope and ill keep my middle finger up for them with my back turned towards them and never looking back even if they dropped a linux version tomorrow! thats about where i stand, linux over this ignorant company, company of possible chinese spys and or government boot lickers.....(insert middle finger here)
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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.
