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Official Linux Support

  • January 21, 2022
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willssonic
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  • October 23, 2025

please any updates on this?


Bruno Gama
  • New Member
  • October 29, 2025

C’mon, guys… Any update for us?


Dan Allman
  • New Member
  • October 29, 2025

This is insane. At this point, MCP is a requirement to work with Figma if you’re serious about getting stuff done. The fact that I cannot use Figma’s MCP because I dare run Linux is baffling.


Rishikumarg0101

For the love of god, please release a linux version.


Vitaly Odnoyko
  • New Participant
  • October 31, 2025

@djv Stop this ignoring. Support Linux its terrible what we don’t have it and you as Moderator and another guys ignored this


Oleksii_Aleksieiev

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


Vitaly Odnoyko
  • New Participant
  • November 3, 2025

@djv ​@Celine_ ​@ksn ​@y_toku 

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

 


djv
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • November 3, 2025

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.


Vitaly Odnoyko
  • New Participant
  • November 4, 2025

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?


azuredusk10
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  • November 6, 2025

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

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?


knownassa
  • New Member
  • November 7, 2025

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 


Vitaly Odnoyko
  • New Participant
  • November 9, 2025

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

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?

 

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.


Ziggi
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  • November 15, 2025

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)


Soél
  • New Member
  • November 19, 2025

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.


SYOX
  • New Member
  • November 26, 2025

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.


Vitaly Odnoyko
  • New Participant
  • December 10, 2025

@djv  ​@Celine_ ​@ksn ​@y_toku 


We still here and wait for solution. Its not a question. Its needs


ksn
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • December 10, 2025

@Vitaly Odnoyko Thanks for checking in - we continue to report user requests for this. but at this time, we have no update or information on our end on what work is being done for a potential Linux app.

 

I understand that an officially supported app would be ideal for everyone here, and we will be sure to communicate if one becomes available in the future.

 

Thank you for understanding.


Chris Wilson
  • New Member
  • December 12, 2025

Wow, Figma must be the only developer tool without a Linux app. Crazy!

 

It shouldn’t even be that difficult to achieve.


Don Phillips
  • New Member
  • December 17, 2025

I will toss my request here to have it ignored, but count me in as well please for an official app so I can use it’s MCP server, rather than a rando 3rd party one, on Linux.

It’s a bloody Electron app on Windows/Mac, so it should be doable.


Kais Rayhan
  • New Member
  • December 24, 2025

Yo, wtf, man! ending of 2025, in this AI bubble era where macOS and pathetic Windows and many of the program kernels are based on Linux, here is another company that doesn't want to have a Linux version of their app.


adam.youssef
  • New Member
  • December 31, 2025

Being apple jerkoff is not so cool.


Luis Herrada
  • New Member
  • January 14, 2026

@djv  ​@Celine_ ​@ksn ​@y_toku 

 

Any updates from the team? I get the feeling that we’ll need to find the decision makers on LinkedIn since they’re clearly ignoring the community.

 

I doubt the Figma team doesn’t have the resources to get around the issues that prevent Linux support.


Karin Kreeft
  • New Member
  • January 19, 2026

Linux is becoming more and more mainstream, when can we expect an official desktop linux version?


TomAustin
  • New Participant
  • January 30, 2026

Adding my support for a Linux version. Looking to move from Windows and a native Figma app is the only thing stopping me. Thanks!


Jay Bee
  • New Participant
  • February 1, 2026

A lot of people are moving to Linux now with Windows doing whatever nobody asked for. It’d be a great time to make this happen!