Spotify
Spotify has a Linux desktop app, but the company says Linux is not a platform it actively supports.
Our verdict
Spotify works on Linux and your music is all there when you sign in, but go in knowing what the company says about it. Spotify describes the Linux client as something its own engineers built to use on their development machines and states that Linux is not a platform it actively supports.
In daily use that matters less than it sounds. Playing music, browsing playlists, offline downloads and connecting to other speakers all behave normally. What you give up is being first in line for new features and having anywhere official to complain when something breaks, because Spotify points Linux users at a community forum.
Install it from the app store on your system, or use the web player in a browser tab, which is fully supported and avoids the question entirely. The Flathub listing is a community package rather than one Spotify publishes.
What's good
- Your account, playlists and downloads are exactly as they were on Windows
- Spotify provides its own Linux app and a Debian package
- The web player works in any browser as a fallback
- Free tier with ads, same as everywhere else
What to know first
- Spotify states plainly that Linux is not actively supported and the experience may differ from Windows and Mac
- New features often arrive later than on Windows, or not at all
- No official help desk support, only a community forum
- The Flathub listing is a community wrapper that Spotify does not verify
The details
- Cost
- Free with paid extras
- Open source
- No (Proprietary)
- How you install it
- App store (Snap), .deb installer, App store (Flatpak), In your browser
Windows apps it can replace
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