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I wont be using it but something I want to say is that it's weird that it took this long. The normal version of Opera has been available on Linux for a very long time now, I don't know exactly how long but it's been at least since prior to May 15, 2001, from what I could find (I saw a claim that it was released for Linux in Dec 31,1997, but there's no proof). Ever since the release of Opera GX, there was a lot of discussion about when/if GX would be available for Linux and, from what I understand, a lot of the people who used Opera on Linux wanted GX. I just don't understand why it took them this long to release a Linux version.