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  • More details here: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/linux/linux-app
    by btibor91
  • The most remarkable things about this announcement:

    - Electron based app: Electron is a framework sold on the basis of enabling rapid cross-platform development at the cost of performance.

    - Frontier AI company: AI is sold on the basis of enabling rapid development

    - App was released in February & took 6 entire months to port to Linux

    by lucideer
  • FYI; This link shows Codex based on your current OS. I get a norwegian landing page with a download link for Windows.
    by torh
  • The testimonials at the bottom are all from AI companies.

    Linux users are kind of averse to trojans. You should call it Back Orifice For Linux. You don't even have to change the OpenAI logo!

    by 23qsGa1
  • This will make it much easier to trap people into installing it without any isolation just to their primary user account or even make it run with admin privileges by default.

    With the recent security related events we already see that it seems to be wide spread practice that many operators avoid the hassle of isolating their agents.

    It is just an incredible cultural experience to see how quick stupidity gets accepted as a behavioural default.

    by BodyCulture
  • For someone who has not tried these desktop apps: what is the the advantage versus cli codex with some MPCs and multiple folders each one with their context files?
    by pdhborges
  • From yesterday, with 26 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264334
    by WalterGR
  • Interesting to see the Linux version released. On Windows, though, my experience with the new ChatGPT app since Codex was folded into it hasn't been great.

    I'm a Codex user, and when it was still a standalone app it worked really well for me. Since it became part of the new ChatGPT app, the app feels noticeably slower and, at least on my machine, is currently using around 1.27 GB of RAM [1].

    The old ChatGPT app, which has now been renamed "ChatGPT Classic", feels much faster and is using around 478 MB under the same conditions.

    I have a reasonably powerful PC, so the difference is pretty noticeable. I assume Classic will eventually be discontinued, but so far the transition to the new app on Windows hasn't been particularly good for me.

    [1] https://imgur.com/a/nQkneGL

    by pentagrama

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