Warp Terminal is now available for Linux

Hi! I’m Aloke, an engineer at Warp.

I’m really excited to share that Warp is now available on Linux! If you’re interested in trying it out, you can download Warp at https://www.warp.dev/.

We've gotten 2-3 reports of authentication issues like the one the author mentions. We are actively looking into it; we believe its an issue with a library we depend on to open URLs. If anyone is experiencing these issues, please contact us at support@warp.dev so we can better understand the issue and further debug!

Building Warp on Linux was quite an undertaking. Warp uses a custom Rust-based UI framework that we built in house and renders natively on the GPU. To get Warp running on Linux, we built a version of our UI framework that supports winit [1] as a windowing backend. We also built a version of our renderer that uses wgpu [2]. Reducing complexity by using these well-supported, cross platform, frameworks let us bootstrap a version of Linux quicker than expected and should make it easier to build Warp for other platforms (like Windows).

Please let me know what you think! Happy to answer any questions, either about the product or about technical challenges.

[1] https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit [2] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu

Excited to try!