Aaron Kelly's Blog

Running GeForce Now on Linux

use the electron app for linux

https://github.com/hmlendea/gfn-electron
https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.github.hmlendea.geforcenow-electron

Then:

flatpak install flathub io.github.hmlendea.geforcenow-electroncontent_copy
flatpak run io.github.hmlendea.geforcenow-electron

chromium (deprecated) - it was the best option (user-agent method dead as of April 2022)

They just released GeForce Now for Chromebooks (ChromeOS).

Just change your user agent in Chrome to Chrome OS and you can play on any Chrome browser! Menu > More tools > Developer tools > Menu > More tools > Network conditions > Untick Use browser default > Select Chrome - Chrome OS.

It should have a value equal to this:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 10066.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.60 Safari/537.36

You can also set it permanently by starting chrome with the --user-agent parameter:

chrome --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 10066.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.60 Safari/537.36'

Emulation

See [[running android apps on Linux]]

Hardware (Android Phone)

I have a spare Android Phone (Samsung Galaxy J36), and as Android is one of the supported devices I thought I’d try doing the following:

run GeForce Now on Android
on my Linux machine, use Steam Remote Play to connect to the Steam instance that’s running inside my Android phone

When I went to download the app on the Play Store, it said my device wasn’t supported. This is a shame as the phone was only released in 2016!

There is an alternative: install the application as an APK, however this will be considered an untrusted source. I don’t care though, I won’t be using this phone for anything else.