Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS

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Post by Cider9986 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS
en.help.roblox.com

Re: Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS

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Post by jkahrs595 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:48 PM UTC

Seems ridiculous, but when their biggest rival can’t be bothered to support Linux… you see why they might announce something like this.

Re: Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS

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Post by unleaded » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 9:17 PM UTC

jkahrs595 wrote: post #2

Seems ridiculous, but when their biggest rival can’t be bothered to support Linux… you see why they might announce something like this.

Who's their biggest rival? Roblox doesn't support Linux either.

Re: Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS

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Post by vablings » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 9:29 PM UTC

unleaded wrote: post #3

jkahrs595 wrote: post #2

Seems ridiculous, but when their biggest rival can’t be bothered to support Linux… you see why they might announce something like this.

Who's their biggest rival? Roblox doesn't support Linux either.

They don't officially support Linux, but they allow the community to continue playing using Sober. Honestly it's probably better that way

Re: Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS

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Post by Throudin » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 9:31 PM UTC

unleaded wrote: post #3

jkahrs595 wrote: post #2

Seems ridiculous, but when their biggest rival can’t be bothered to support Linux… you see why they might announce something like this.

Who's their biggest rival? Roblox doesn't support Linux either.

I'd assume Fortnite Creative

Re: Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS

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Post by jkahrs595 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 9:42 PM UTC

unleaded wrote: post #3

jkahrs595 wrote: post #2

Seems ridiculous, but when their biggest rival can’t be bothered to support Linux… you see why they might announce something like this.

Who's their biggest rival? Roblox doesn't support Linux either.

Let me rephrase, it doesn’t actively oppose Linux like Fortnite does. Roblox absolutely can run on Linux, even though it’s not officially supported.

Re: Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS

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Post by jordand » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 9:57 PM UTC

Makes sense for them to support this given their scale. I wouldn't be surprised if GrapheneOS secures another big Android OEM vendor (after Motorola Mobility) and the user base of the OS quickly grows from its current 400k+ to millions.

Re: Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS

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Post by subscribed » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 9:57 PM UTC

Great news! I never had problems running Roblox on my GOS, but it's nice to to see the explicit, official support.

Snowball effect (for both sides, software publishers and OS vendors).

Re: Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS

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Post by ekianjo » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 9:59 PM UTC

jkahrs595 wrote: post #6

unleaded wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who's their biggest rival? Roblox doesn't support Linux either.

Let me rephrase, it doesn’t actively oppose Linux like Fortnite does. Roblox absolutely can run on Linux, even though it’s not officially supported.

Use Sober

Re: Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS

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Post by a2128 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

jkahrs595 wrote: post #2

Seems ridiculous, but when their biggest rival can’t be bothered to support Linux… you see why they might announce something like this.

Roblox has a long history of not supporting Linux, and the game was rendered unplayable for many years. In 2022 it became possible following some Wine patches, but then they began to implement a kernel-level anticheat. Roblox initially committed to keeping Wine working but suddenly went back on that and blocked it without notice. Today, the last remaining way is through running the Android version of the game through an Android container or emulator. The TFA is about stopping this exact method of running the game though...