On 13 August 2026, NVIDIA announced that its native GeForce NOW app for Linux has left beta and is officially stable. This gives Linux users a maintained, official route to cloud gaming – without a powerful graphics card in their own machine.
GeForce NOW streams games from RTX PCs in the cloud to your own device – including ray tracing and DLSS. The Linux app ships as a Flatpak and therefore runs on most x86-64 systems (Ubuntu 24.04 or later is recommended). Depending on your plan, it supports high resolutions and frame rates, up to around 5K at 120 fps or 1080p at up to 360 fps.
What the stable release brings
Compared with the beta that launched in January, the final app mainly delivers polish: a more rounded overall experience, optimised gameplay and improved support for DLSS Frame Generation. New cloud optimisations aim to make Frame Generation feel more responsive while streaming; Performance members benefit from higher frame rates in demanding games thanks to a CPU adjustment.
For the Linux gaming scene, this is another sign that the platform is arriving at major providers – after Valve’s Proton progress, now also with a native cloud-gaming client from NVIDIA.
Sources: NVIDIA Blog, Phoronix.
