Please Bring Computer Use Support to Linux

Codex Feature Requests
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It would be great to have Computer Use / desktop control officially supported on Linux.

Linux is a very common environment for developers, researchers, DevOps, AI/ML workloads, and engineering work, so having Computer Use available only on other desktop platforms leaves out many of the users who could benefit from it the most.

Native Linux support could enable workflows such as:

  • Interacting with desktop applications and browsers
  • Working with IDEs, terminals, and development tools
  • Testing and debugging Linux applications
  • Automating repetitive GUI tasks
  • Managing local development environments and servers
  • Combining Codex with existing Linux tools, containers, SSH, and local AI workloads

Even an initial experimental implementation for Ubuntu, supporting common environments such as GNOME/Wayland and X11, would be extremely useful.

Linux users are often comfortable testing early or experimental features, so a beta release would already be very welcome.

Please consider bringing Computer Use to Linux. I would be happy to test it and provide feedback.

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Try these two pages: https://openai.com/codex/ and https://www.layer3labs.io/guides/codex-cli-on-linux . I use both on Ubuntu, and they work very well. If you want graphics on Linux, both Codex and ChatGPT know how to build TK apps using Python3. You will need to install TK, perhaps using the command: “sudo apt install python3-tk”. You may need to get an API key from OpenAI and set it up in your shell as a shell variable, if you plan to use the API. I get code from ChatGPT and test it on my local machine. We work as a programming pair, with ChatGPT as the senior partner and myself as the client/junior partner. It works very well.