Official Linux Support

Get over it, guys. Figma is a pathetic company that doesn't listen to its community.

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Please stop overlooking this topic. Many users have been waiting since 2022.

Flathub — the unified app store used across modern Linux distributions — now handles 4–6 million downloads per day, compared to ~500k/day in 2022. The Linux ecosystem has grown dramatically, and user expectations have grown with it.

We urgently need a Flatpak version.

Linux today is not just “another platform” — for many users it’s the only reliable operating system left. The current Windows ecosystem has become unstable, unreliable, and filled with regressions and privacy issues. There is no viable Windows alternative anymore — Linux is.

Millions of users rely on Linux and Flathub.
Please support Linux.

Its not a suggest its needs for millions!

Statistik page - https://flathub.org/en/statistics

Hi All, 

Thank you so much for continuing to share your thoughts with us. We really appreciate how passionate this community is.
 

We know Linux support has been an ongoing request for quite some time, and we completely understand how important it is to many of you. While it’s something that’s remained on our team’s radar, we unfortunately don’t have a confirmed timeline (or guarantee) to share right now.
 

Please know that your feedback truly makes a difference. We read every comment and will continue to advocate internally for broader platform support. Thank you again for your patience, understanding, and for being such an engaged part of our community.

In other words — you can spend millions building the new Weave, launch Figma Sites, FigJam, Slides, Buzz, Make and all the rest,

but at the same time you basically spit in the face of Linux users by saying you’re not even willing to consider adapting the already-existing Electron app for Linux?

Linux users have a wealth of professional design apps available to them toady, including:

• Canva’s Affinity 3 (photo editing, vector editing, desktop publishing)
• Penpot (UI design)
• Lunacy (UI design)

Many users have left reviews for Penpot and Lunacy in the Linux app store saying they’re the perfect Figma replacement.

With Windows 10 users now forced to throw their computers away or install Linux, it’s more important than ever to support designers and developers to use Figma on Linux. The Linux market share continues to grow, and users continue to have had enough of Windows and Mac.

We now have credible alternative design tools available to use on Linux. Do you really want to let your customers go elsewhere because you don’t support their platform?

Hi, Like this Post, I am also interested in Figma Official app in Linux, I want to transition to Linux just because of this I am stuck. If Figma and Affinity, I will be 

I work professionally on websites, apps, graphic design, and more.
Canva and Affinity both had bugs in my recent installations, and right now Penpot is unfortunately not usable for professional work. After more than six months since reporting basic UI issues — fundamental workflow elements that make tasks 2–4× slower compared to Figma — I still see no meaningful improvements in UX. It’s better than Inkscape for Gnome team but, but still far from suitable for commercial projects.

Lunacy also has limitations: no free plugin ecosystem like Iconify, the alternative costs €9.99, and they lack proper variables for building professional design systems. Combined with multiple UI issues, missing plugins, and missing core variable support, it's not viable for my workflow either.

First, what you made doesn’t fit my needs.
Second, it’s not usable, because they build “BIG” features while completely ignoring that those features are breaking inside their terrible UX. Its funny how UX/UI tool, is unusable because have terrible UX
And the latest tools still don’t have what’s needed to build complex design systems.

I need Figma on Linux, and this is not a complicated problem. Everything Figma does already runs in the cloud. The community even created a buggy but working unofficial Figma-for-Linux client. Just take their code, fix the issues, and release it officially. That’s all.

What we need is support for local fonts, so that we can at least use Figma in the browser. And surely that can’t be difficult to achieve. Either by releasing an official “Figma font helper” for Linux (porting that from Mac would probably take one of your devs hours), or by facilitating that the open source community can maintain something with use of existing or new APIs. For example… as a start... by not actively blocking font loading for Linux user agents, or putting up other roadblocks.

These days more and more professionals are being pushed to Linux due to 1) lack of graphics umpfh for 3D, VFX, game dev, genAI, etc, in affordable Macs… and 2) Windows being a giant turd. It’s absolutely infuriating that we get blocked by such a simple little thing as fonts. Your web app otherwise works perfectly well. What the f. Figma?

(Edit: yes, we need MCP as well. But start with the low-hanging fruit please: fonts)

I have turned my back on the Windows world, because the control mechanisms there have long been a thorn in my side.

macOS is also not an option for me — it’s too closed a system, which I don’t like. That’s why I switched to Linux. I believe many users like me are also making the move to Linux.

I’m enthusiastic about Linux — almost everything I need is available as software, sometimes even better than in the Windows world. What I’m missing, however, are graphics programs like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

I am convinced that the number of desktop-Linux users will continue to rise in the future. Because I’m certainly not the only person in the world who no longer likes the other two alternative operating systems.

What I particularly like about Linux is that you can fully adapt it to your own needs. And because it is open source, the possibilities are — in my view — boundless. That really excites me.

If your company wants to be a competitor to Adobe in the future, then as a Linux user — a passionate Linux user — I would strongly encourage you to also develop native software for Linux.

I would be very happy about that.

Recently switched to Linux from Windows 11, and I’m surprised to see that there’s no official Linux client for Figma. How is there no Linux support in 2025?

Please consider this, there’s a huge Linux Community that deserves this great software officially supported.

Thanks.