Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting native Linux and Fire TV apps

Nvidia’s RTX 5080 rollout for its GeForce Now unreality gaming work is now complete, truthful it’s fresh to denote immoderate further features for subscribers. In the coming months, Nvidia is readying to motorboat autochthonal GeForce Now apps for Linux and Amazon’s Fire TV devices, alongside formation power support for its unreality gaming service.

The autochthonal Linux app is simply a highly requested characteristic for GeForce Now, particularly arsenic subscribers person had to trust connected unofficial apps aliases browser tweaks to get entree to the service. A beta of GeForce Now for Linux will beryllium disposable initially for Ubuntu 24.04 and newer soon, astir a twelvemonth aft Nvidia made it easier to entree GeForce Now connected the Linux-based SteamOS.

“Right now, the GeForce Now Linux app is going to motorboat first arsenic a beta connected Ubuntu 24.04 chiefly because this is simply a semipermanent support merchandise that enables unchangeable graphics drivers and accordant strategy libraries,” says Michael McSorley, merchandise trading head astatine Nvidia, successful a briefing pinch The Verge. “As we continually trial the app, we’re going to beryllium expanding general support to further [Linux] distributions successful the coming weeks.”

Nvidia is besides further expanding GeForce Now into the surviving room pinch support for Amazon Fire TV devices. The app will motorboat early this twelvemonth for Fire TV Stick 4K Plus and 4K Max initially, allowing owners to watercourse PC games to their TV pinch conscionable a controller.

If you’re a instrumentality of Microsoft Flight Simulator, Nvidia is besides introducing afloat formation power support for GeForce Now truthful that devices from Thrustmaster and Logitech will activity connected its unreality gaming service. That intends you tin link a joystick aliases yoke to an underpowered laptop and watercourse a transcript of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 pinch the controls each moving successful the game.

Nvidia is besides enabling automatic sign-in for Battle.net accounts connected GeForce Now this week, pinch Gaijin.net relationship support soon. And if you’re wondering erstwhile GeForce Now will yet motorboat successful India, arsenic Nvidia promised past year, it has been delayed to “sometime successful Q1, 2026,” according to McSorley.