[Request]Opera GX on Linux
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DoubleDot last edited by
As a developer that has only access to Linux for various reasons, i am forced to boot a VM only to do my testings with Opera gx, as all others Browsers are available directly. Which is a significant testing overhead that just pushes me to say 'sorry i'll fix this opera GX bug in 10 days alongside all other bugs on opera GX i've collected during this period to be time worthy.'. And this despite the bug being easy or hard to fix, just because it is annoying to have to work with VMs.
Hence why i'd ask for a OperaGX support on linux -
linuxrocks2000 last edited by
@doubledot Please have ChatGPT or something edit your messages before you post them, reading your post took far too much effort.
Regardless, I agree; us developers are heavily assf***** by Opera's refusal to do an easy Linux build. Hell, they could use all sorts of trickery to publish enough code for us to create our own Linux deploys (thus eliminating the need to support many platforms; they would just have to give us some object files to link), without letting us modify it. It's not hard to support the most popular operating system in the world.Personally I would be willing to maintain RPMs for Opera, and I'm sure there are plenty who would do the DEBs and whatever magic Arch uses. The Nix users would have a blast (wait, do they already have it? Sounds like the kinda magic spell Nix users are so well known for...)
Come on, Opera dev team, show a lil' love and support the community! We promise to behave!
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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 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 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 Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@gmgarciam Opera is not open source, only its Chromium part is.
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linuxrocks2000 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 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 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)_/¯ -
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 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 last edited by
Congrats - you guys just lost a potential user because of the lack of a Linux build.
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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 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. -
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 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 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 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 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.
