- Sources: primary, discussion
- Summary: The announcement, posted 2026-08-11 by an OpenAI account in the OpenAI developer community, states that the desktop app brings ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex into one native application, and names the supported targets as Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43 and 44, on x64 and ARM64, shipped as
.deb and .rpm packages only. - Comments: Two replies report the same defect independently, that Fcitx 5 input methods do not work in the composer under KDE Plasma on Wayland unless the app is launched with
--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-wayland-ime, confirmed for Japanese on Fedora 44 and Korean on EndeavourOS. Another reply reports Codex CLI projects on the same machine missing from the desktop app's project list. Those reports are user accounts in the thread and carry no OpenAI response. - Why it matters: A native client removes the browser dependency for Codex work on Linux, and the two package formats offered leave Arch and NixOS users on workarounds.
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