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I tried the new ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux - but I'll stick to my browser for now

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux is an Electron-based program.
The application is proprietary, not open source.
Frankly, it's not that impressive. I'll keep using ChatGPT in the browser.

OpenAI has released a preview of its ChatGPT desktop application for Linux. With this, OpenAI now has a native client on all major desktop operating systems and is placing its coding agent, Codex, alongside ChatGPT and its Work environment.

That's the good news. The bad news is that, for me at least, ChatGPT continues to be annoyingly inaccurate. While I can cosplay a coder, with or without AI, my real use for AI is as an advanced search engine. When I asked the ChatGPT app on my main Linux Mint desktop to give me the technical specifications for SpaceX and Nvidia's forthcoming Starmind AI datacenter satellites...

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