OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

43 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by ashurandi

22 Comments

shostack

an hour ago

Am I understanding correctly that I still can't run a headless session on my VPS in a way that let's me use remote control for a better 1st party mobile experience that doesn't require my laptop to be awake?

I really don't want to have to boot into a whole desktop Ubuntu instance simply to run this.

I've gone as far as starting to build my own handoff layer with Hermes as I want to use codex purely for coding in a more isolated fashion and not have it co-mingle my memory and unrelated sensitive context and tool calls. The newly announced integration was so close to what I wanted and yet so far for anyone that wants to keep sensitive data separated.

I wish they offered a consumer zero data retention plan.

acheron

8 hours ago

I have it open in a browser tab, and I have the codex cli. What are the features/advantages this has over the old way?

loveparade

6 hours ago

You can do remote control / handoff with it, i.e. start on desktop and move to mobile. doesn't work with the cli

undeveloper

2 hours ago

the desktop ui is considerably nicer to use if you ever find yourself switching between terminal tabs

cedws

2 hours ago

How do you somehow make a cross OS browser platform only work on one OS in the first place?

amanzi

8 hours ago

Nice - I've been considering re-subscribing to OpenAI to try out their new models. This is just the push I needed. Looking forward to trying it on Fedora 44.

miguelnegrao

8 hours ago

Wouldn't most linux users just use codex cli or codex vscode ? Does the app bring anything not available on codex ?

fragmede

8 hours ago

Yes, a GUI. There are various terminal multiplexers out there, but OpenAI wants you to use theirs.

taosx

8 hours ago

I've been extracting the asar and using it for a while on linux, I rarely start it but it's nice that I can start a session in chatgpt and then move on to codex in the same UI.

It's packed with features, voice mode, browser. I'm not really the target audience..

seabrookmx

7 hours ago

Does it run a VM under the covers like the Claude desktop app does?

I've passed on the Claude desktop app for that reason, despite being curious about the "Routines" feature that isn't available in the Claude Code CLI.

beering

7 hours ago

isn’t strong sandbox a good thing?

ramon156

7 hours ago

VMs are not a secure sandbox

jdbdbeb

20 minutes ago

What are you talking about, of cause VMs are a secure sandbox

whs

5 hours ago

Tell that to AWS Lambda and Google Compute Engine?

shooly

5 hours ago

VMs are a secure sandbox. Containers aren't.

theyliesoeasily

8 hours ago

Looking forward to the "here's the data they're exfiltrating" breakdowns.