Following NVIDIA’s announcement back at CES of their GeForce NOW game streaming service coming to Linux as a native desktop application, today’s the day. The GeForce NOW Linux-native build is being published and the review embargo has lifted.

NVIDIA already has been offering GeForce NOW for Valve’s Steam Deck while now they are offering it as a Flatpak build for the typical Linux desktop. While confined to a Flatpak, for now NVIDIA is just “officially” supporting it on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. Granted, thanks to Flatpak it should run on other non-Ubuntu distributions too but in terms of the official support and where they are qualifying their builds they are limiting it just to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. It’s understandable from the corporate perspective and with there being a free tier to GeForce NOW, you can always try out the Linux build on the distribution of your choice before having to put any money down. At launch the Flatpak build is also just for x86_64 Linux with no AArch64 Linux builds or similar at this time.