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Re: The Codex App

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Post by dkundel » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

mellosouls wrote: post #44

Mac only. Again . Apple is great but this is OpenAI devs showing their disconnect from the mainstream. Its complacent at best, contemptuous at worst. SamA or somebody really needs to give the product managers here a kick up the arse.

Windows is almost ready. It's already running but we are solving a few more things before the release to make sure it works well.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by spiderice » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

miroljub wrote: post #8

Given the prevalence of Opencode and its ability to use any model and provider I don't see reason why would anyone bother with random vendors half-assed tools.

For starters, money. There is no better value out there that I'm aware of than Claude Code Max. Claude Code also just works way better than Opencode, in my experience. Though I know there are those that have experienced the exact opposite.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by austinhutch » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 6:50 PM UTC

I'm managing context with codex inside VSCode using different threads. I'm trying to figure out if there are use cases where I'd rather be in this app.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by atestu » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 6:51 PM UTC

IMTDb wrote: post #37

samuelstros wrote: post #6

It's basically what Emdash ( https://www.emdash.sh/ ), Conductor ( https://www.conductor.build/ ) & CO have been building but as first class product from OpenAI. Begs the question if Anthropic will follow up with a first-class Claude Code "multi agent" (git worktree) app themselves.

Maybe a dumb question on my side; but if you are using a GUI like emdash with Claude Code, are you getting the full claude code harness under the hood or are you "just" leveraging the model ?

I can answer for Conductor: you're getting the full Claude Code, it's just a GUI wrapper on top of CC. It makes it easy to create worktrees (1 click) and manage them.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by romainhuet » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 6:51 PM UTC

mellosouls wrote: post #44

Mac only. Again . Apple is great but this is OpenAI devs showing their disconnect from the mainstream. Its complacent at best, contemptuous at worst. SamA or somebody really needs to give the product managers here a kick up the arse.

Hi! Romain here, I work on Codex at OpenAI. We totally hear you. The team actually built the app in Electron specifically so we can support Windows and Linux as well. We shipped macOS first, but Windows is coming very soon. Appreciate you calling this out. Stay tuned!

Re: The Codex App

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Post by mcintyre1994 » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 6:52 PM UTC

samuelstros wrote: post #25

FanaHOVA wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop

oh i didn't know that claude code has a desktop app already

It isn’t its own app, but it’s built in to their desktop, mobile and web apps.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by embirico » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 6:52 PM UTC

romainhuet wrote: post #55

mellosouls wrote: post #44

Mac only. Again . Apple is great but this is OpenAI devs showing their disconnect from the mainstream. Its complacent at best, contemptuous at worst. SamA or somebody really needs to give the product managers here a kick up the arse.

Hi! Romain here, I work on Codex at OpenAI. We totally hear you. The team actually built the app in Electron specifically so we can support Windows and Linux as well. We shipped macOS first, but Windows is coming very soon. Appreciate you calling this out. Stay tuned!

Only thing i'd add re windows is it's taking us some time to get really solid sandboxing working on Windows, where there are fewer OS-level primitives for it. There's some more at https://developers.openai.com/codex/windows and we'd love help with testing and feedback to make it robust.

Re: The Codex App

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Post by kblissett » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 6:53 PM UTC

Does this support users who access Codex via Azure OpenAI API keys?

Re: The Codex App

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Post by davidcann » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 6:53 PM UTC

justkez wrote: post #46

Genuinely curious if people would just let this rip with no obvious isolation? I’m aware Mac OS has some isolation/sandboxes but without running codex via docker I wouldn’t be running codex. (Appreciate there are still risks)

Shameless plug, but you can sandbox codex cli without a container using my macOS app: https://multitui.com

Re: The Codex App

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Post by Oras » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 6:54 PM UTC

romainhuet wrote: post #55

mellosouls wrote: post #44

Mac only. Again . Apple is great but this is OpenAI devs showing their disconnect from the mainstream. Its complacent at best, contemptuous at worst. SamA or somebody really needs to give the product managers here a kick up the arse.

Hi! Romain here, I work on Codex at OpenAI. We totally hear you. The team actually built the app in Electron specifically so we can support Windows and Linux as well. We shipped macOS first, but Windows is coming very soon. Appreciate you calling this out. Stay tuned!

Curios why electron not native?

Wouldn’t native give better performance and more system integration?