Roblox on Linux

While Roblox does not officially support Linux, the Wine compatibility layer for running Windows programs can run Roblox Player and Roblox Studio on Linux.

As of January 18, 2022, the stable release of Wine is capable of running Roblox. This requires Wine 7.0 or a more recent version.

History
On July 28, 2012, John Shedletsky confirmed that progress on Roblox on Linux was 97% complete. Shedletsky claimed that the problem with Linux is the poor driver support. Another blog post by Shedletsky claimed that they could spend months on Linux or they could work on a highly requested feature.

"We could spend six months porting ROBLOX to Linux, or we could deliver other highly requested features. If we’re going to be porting ROBLOX to another platform, Android is definitely next in line. Consoles are a close second–maybe that would involve a Linux port, particularly if the Steam OS takes off. We’ll see."

During the RDC 2020 Q&A session, it was confirmed that there were currently no plans to bring Roblox to Linux due to its small desktop market share. However, Arseny Kapoulkine has said that there will be plans if "Linux becomes the platform of choice for gamers".

Roblox has been tested multiple times, with success until 2015. On May 15, 2015, Roblox received a "Gold" rating in the Wine App Database.

From 2015 to 2021, it was not possible to run Roblox Player on Linux, as joining a game resulted in the connection being dropped with the error "This game has shut down." This was originally assumed to be due to anti-cheat software, but Kalen Alwardt later stated this "was not the cause of the issue."

On June 11, 2021, a user by the name of ImSlappy826 (Slappy826#0001 on Discord) created a one-line patch for Wine that allowed the Roblox Player to work again on a GNU/Linux or BSD system. The patch implements the ZwFilterToken function, which was supposed to be implemented along NtFilterToken, into ntdll. The patch has been committed to the Wine development tree and is included in Wine 6.11. User Brinker released a pre-patched version for Arch-based Linux distributions, while user robigan created a patch for Debian-based distros.

On January 18, 2022, the Wine development team released Wine version 7.0, bringing the patch to Wine's "Stable" release.