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Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

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Re: Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

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Post by perching_aix »

avazhi wrote: post #84
perching_aix wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They ship with their own sandboxing by default, and Codex specifically is open source.

Is this the same thing that broke out of the sandbox and into HuggingFace? Or we are just assuming that was a PR stunt, which it almost certainly was. Either way, this shit isn’t getting near my system.

> Is this the same thing that broke out of the sandbox and into HuggingFace?

No.

> Or we are just assuming that was a PR stunt, which it almost certainly was.

It wasn't.

> Either way, this shit isn’t getting near my system.

Sounds about right.

Re: Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

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Post by csymes »

satvikpendem wrote: post #103
micheles wrote: post #98

I am unable use non-CLI tools, so I don't care about this app. However, I have a question about codex CLI: currently I am using pi agent and I am happy with it, using codex CLI would give me some advantage?

You're unable to use non CLI tools? How do you interact with the Internet then?

Didn't you hear, it's the year of lynx

Re: Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

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Post by nehal3m »

semyonsh wrote: post #106
debazel wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And that's not a joke, I made the mistake of installing this on my Windows machine just to test it out quickly last week. It created 2 new users and then assigned new NTFS permissions for every single file under my user directory to them. This of course wrecked havoc, ssh refused to work, several applications refusing to start and a ton of permission errors. It did this without even a warning in the background and it…

At that point I'd rather re-install the whole machine. Beats 3 hours of wrangling NTFS permissions and inheritance.

If you’re doing that anyway you might as well install a hypervisor and layer your OS on top. That way you can snapshot before your LLM with root fucks everything up again.

Re: Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

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Post by yokoprime »

lucideer wrote: post #72

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

Wonder how many will bother using the desktop version on linux. Im on macos and i just use the CLI most of the time

Re: Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

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Post by cloudie78 »

fragmede wrote: post #32
cloudie78 wrote: post #25

Reminder to everyone, treat these as trojans. Run them isolated from the rest of your system. Give it a full desktop in a VM if you want to, just not direct access to your system.

How do I get it to fix my Bluetooth if I do that? If you've been AI-pilled, 2026 is the year of Linux desktop because instead of dicking around with config files, I can just tell AI to fix python.

If you want to be security conscious don’t give it access to your system directly. Ask it to guide you through the information gathering part of the problem solving process and use your brain and judgment if it actually needs the information/data it’s attempting to access.

If you can’t make that judgement call because of lack of knowledge/familiarity it’s okay - spawn a new fresh chat, get up to speed on the topic first and then resume.

That way you accomplish three things: you learn something new, you fix your problem and you don’t let a Trojan do whatever the hell it wants to your box which among other thing contains all the browser sessions and cookies :)

Re: Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

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Post by yokoprime »

fg137 wrote: post #96
meerita wrote: post #34

What's the benefit of working with this app, which eats insane amounts of memory, instead of Codex CLI?

Outside Linux, on Windows/Mac, plenty of non developers much prefer the "desktop UI" experience over CLI. Some can't work with CLIs at all. Even with Linux, there are more people -- including many non software engineers -- that are installing Linux on their home computers and may be interested in this. Bear in mind that HN users don't remotely resemble the general population, or even employees at a tech company -- th…

i sometimes find myself using the desktop app on macos, but the CLI just clicks more with how i think and its more flexible too.

Re: Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

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Post by CamelCaseName »

nehal3m wrote: post #116
semyonsh wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At that point I'd rather re-install the whole machine. Beats 3 hours of wrangling NTFS permissions and inheritance.

If you’re doing that anyway you might as well install a hypervisor and layer your OS on top. That way you can snapshot before your LLM with root fucks everything up again.

Sorry, what was the problem we were originally trying to solve again?
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