Great question, no really good reason I've heard yet. Standard Opera is available on Linux, however there have been some issues with the flatpak and ffmpeg codecs to have the Spotify sidebar player working properly. This comes down to the maintainer though. Answer from Typical-Chipmunk-327 on reddit.com
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r/operabrowser on Reddit: Opera GX for Linux?
January 12, 2021 -

Heya, I have been wondering if Opera GX will get a linux release or if there is any work done for that.

Any info will help, cheers.

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Opera hasn't said anything yet, so not sure. Would be nice.
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u/INeedABetterNickHelp u/shadow2531 u/CrazyIronMyth u/nakshtrapunia u/KeeperCP1 u/TheUpvoterOriginal I've GOT IT WORKING...under wine, not natively. I use chromium and regular opera but always wanted opera gx on linux, and they are working on it. It took ALOT of experimentation and deleting and recreating wine dirs. What finally worked is> Install wine, from opensuses repos, which have .debs with latest (if you're using debian 10 or ubuntu 18.04 youll need this), Debian 11 and 20.04 have newer wine. The point is to have wine 5.1 or above. Tutorial for debian and ubuntu users. run winecfg on terminal (winecfg), then install mono (net framework), when prompted. Download and run opera gx installer (wine OperaGXSetup.exe) Let it run until it freezes, then go to terminal and press cntrl + C to abort. (This is needed to make registry entries but fails before it can copy all files) Now, go to a windows machine, (I used windows 11 beta in virtualbox) install a fresh opera gx copy, then go to C:\Program Files and Copy the whole "Opera GX" directory to a thumb drive (or mounted shared drive in virtual machine). Note if you didnt select to install for all users it will instead be in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\ Go to C:\Users\$USERNAMEHERE\AppData\Local\Opera Software\ and copy dir "Opera GX Stable" to thumb drive. (or mounted drive) Go back to linux machine and recreate these dirs, i.e. copying them in the same place but on your wine virtual drive (located in ~/.wine/drive_c/) Finally go in terminal and go all the way to the Opera GX dir in program files. Type wine launcher.exe --no-gpu It runs, but without hardware gpu acceleration. But works fine otherwise Note. Wine 5.x.x works but it sometimes crashes. 6.x.x - the staging or "bleeding edge" version works much better. But some distros cant run 6 so. And as said at top most repos like debian 10 ubuntu 18 and below have 4.x.x or even older versions in their repos that are stable, but lack the libraries needed to run chromium based browsers like opera and its derivatives. Arch linux or gentoo linux will have the latest so you could use their repos (for other experimentation, chromium 78/chrome78/browsers based on this or older, will indeed work on wine 4.x.x) Lastly, I'm a chromium dev (could you tell by profile pic lol), so I'm here to help with chromium and browsers built on it. This is my first reddit post, as I was always a reader not a poster, but this was important enough to me to get it out there for people searching "opera gx on linux" like i've been doing the past 6 months with people saying "it doesn't work on wine" No.....you just didn't try hard enough lol!! EDIT: Days from being a year later, I just wanted to say thanks for all the upvotes and awards, this was my first reddit post and it made me feel welcome and its nice that this has helped people use opera gx on linux. ALSO: Latest Wine has new major version, and you should be using that.
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why isnt opera gx on linux? : r/OperaGX
June 30, 2024 - lots of people on the steam deck would rather use it than firefox, and more people are switching over to linux so i feel like if there was a time to get opera gx on linux it would be now?
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r/OperaGX on Reddit: Opera GX in Linux
November 6, 2023 -

Hey there, how's everyone doing? I'm diving into Linux and doing some research. I've been wondering if it's possible to download Opera GX on Linux, but I haven't come across any recent information yet. I'd appreciate it if any of you could share insights on how to download it, or if it's even possible to get the browser on Linux. Thanks!!!

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r/operabrowser on Reddit: Still no GX for Linux
August 13, 2021 -

https://chng.it/Q9JwM6Zd2R

After years of waiting and nonsense I still refuse to give up, I love gx, its my favourite browser yet I am still so annoyed that there is no version for linux. I have been a Linux user since I was a kid and I am friends with many people who are too so I would like to share a petition I found for It recently and ask you all to sign it and help us linux users get gx.Even if your a true blue windows user just sign it to help us please.They said years ago they would be brining it to linux but still nothing.

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r/OperaGX on Reddit: Opera GX on Linux/Steam deck (Lutris) -- little experiment
March 14, 2022 -

What?

I finally somehow made GX work on Linux/Steam Deck, but it sometimes crashes. First you need lutris, wine-staging, and winetricks.

How?

First, make sure those three are installed using your system's package manager. On Arch Linux you need to edit /etc/pacman.conf and uncomment these lines:

[multilib-testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Now, you need to get this folder: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zmHprWV_DI-CymlM4iEJVG4m7ZtRr4e0/view and unzip it somewhere. I put it in ~/Games. Also, create a directory pfx in the folder and create a wineprefix:

export WINEPREFIX=/path/to/pfx

Run winecfg and you may experiment with different windows versions:

winecfg

After you're done go to lutris and create a new game by pressing the + button on the top left. The name is Opera GX and the runner should be wine. On the game options, to executable should be: /path/to/folder/launcher.exe and prefix should be: /path/to/folder/pfx. Architecture is x64. You may also change other options too and experiment. For the wine version I chose wine (staging) instead of fshack.

Problems

There are several problems running GX through wine. It crashes/freezes randomly and bugs could occur. Anyways, I think Opera will port GX to Steam Deck as it has already ported GX to Android (modified version of Linux kernel) and Mac OS (I don't know why since nobody games on Mac but it is a *NIX OS).

To implement GX features on Steam Deck but with normal Opera, here: https://www.linuxadictos.com/en/opera-gx-el-navegador-para-gamers-gx-control-linux.html

Someone also got it working: https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/kvtyei/opera_gx_for_linux/

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r/Ubuntu on Reddit: Opera GX help
January 3, 2025 -

I recently wanted to download Opera GX after seeing it sponsored a bunch and wanted to see how it was. Sad thing is that it's not available for Linux normally. I followed a forum post on what to do (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://forums.opera.com/post/346960&ved=2ahUKEwjendzyof2LAxVh4skDHRFyAPMQFnoECDQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2DQJyffOPb-GB-852PvyVC) where I installed wine to run the Opera installer. My problem comes when it says to open the setup file with Winhelp32, because it doesn't come up for me. Did I do something wrong or is it something else?

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reddit.com β€Ί r/linux_gaming β€Ί opera gx on linux/steam deck (lutris) -- little experiment
r/linux_gaming on Reddit: Opera GX on Linux/Steam deck (Lutris) -- little experiment
March 14, 2022 -

What?

I finally somehow made GX work on Linux/Steam Deck, but it sometimes crashes. First you need lutris, wine-staging, and winetricks.

How?

First, make sure those three are installed using your system's package manager. On Arch Linux you need to edit /etc/pacman.conf and uncomment these lines:

[multilib-testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Now, you need to get this folder: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zmHprWV_DI-CymlM4iEJVG4m7ZtRr4e0/view and unzip it somewhere. I put it in ~/Games. Also, create a directory pfx in the folder and create a wineprefix:

export WINEPREFIX=/path/to/pfx

Run winecfg and you may experiment with different windows versions:

winecfg

After you're done go to lutris and create a new game by pressing the + button on the top left. The name is Opera GX and the runner should be wine. On the game options, to executable should be: /path/to/folder/launcher.exe and prefix should be: /path/to/folder/pfx. Architecture is x64. You may also change other options too and experiment. For the wine version I chose wine (staging) instead of fshack.

Problems

There are several problems running GX through wine. It crashes/freezes randomly and bugs could occur. Anyways, I think Opera will port GX to Steam Deck as it has already ported GX to Android (modified version of Linux kernel) and Mac OS (I don't know why since nobody games on Mac but it is a *NIX OS).

To implement GX features on Steam Deck but with normal Opera, here: https://www.linuxadictos.com/en/opera-gx-el-navegador-para-gamers-gx-control-linux.html

Someone also got it working: https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/kvtyei/opera_gx_for_linux/

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r/OperaGX on Reddit: Can I get opera GX on linux?
February 20, 2023 - The official subreddit for the Opera GX Gaming Browser, for all your Opera GX related needs! ... A subreddit for discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck).