The Linux goblins continue to observe this matter with interest and have reported the CLI is welcome. The app is still missing.
The CLI is appreciated. Truly. It is fast, useful, and very much at home in the terminal caves.
But the goblins must again note for the record:
CLI ≠ App
A native Linux Codex app would still be very very welcome.
Not because Linux users cannot use the CLI, many of us do, heavily, but because the app is a different workflow surface. It gives a different kind of continuity, visibility, session management, and desktop-native interaction than a terminal-only interface.
For a lot of developers, Linux is not a fringe environment. It is where the actual repo work lives. Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Debian and friends are full of people doing exactly the kind of local development, testing, review, and agentic coding work Codex is built for.
So yes: the goblins remain available.
They have sharpened their pipes, adjusted their terminal fonts, and politely request native Linux desktop support before morale deteriorates into further verse.