diff --git a/app/src/ui/about/about.tsx b/app/src/ui/about/about.tsx
index f4e458ec366..c33c20b4cba 100644
--- a/app/src/ui/about/about.tsx
+++ b/app/src/ui/about/about.tsx
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import { Disposable } from 'event-kit'
 import { Loading } from '../lib/loading'
 import { RelativeTime } from '../relative-time'
 import { assertNever } from '../../lib/fatal-error'
-import { ReleaseNotesUri } from '../lib/releases'
+import { ReleaseNotesUri, LinuxReleasesUri } from '../lib/releases'
 import { encodePathAsUrl } from '../../lib/path'
 import { isOSNoLongerSupportedByElectron } from '../../lib/get-os'
 
@@ -100,6 +100,17 @@ export class About extends React.Component<IAboutProps, IAboutState> {
       return null
     }
 
+    if (__LINUX__) {
+      const linuxReleaseLink = (
+        <LinkButton uri={LinuxReleasesUri}>View Releases</LinkButton>
+      )
+      return (
+        <Row>
+          <p className="no-padding">{linuxReleaseLink}</p>
+        </Row>
+      )
+    }
+
     const updateStatus = this.state.updateState.status
 
     switch (updateStatus) {
@@ -185,7 +196,12 @@ export class About extends React.Component<IAboutProps, IAboutState> {
 
   private renderUpdateDetails() {
     if (__LINUX__) {
-      return null
+      return (
+        <p>
+          Please visit the GitHub Desktop for Linux release page for
+          Linux-specific release notes and to download the latest version.
+        </p>
+      )
     }
 
     if (__RELEASE_CHANNEL__ === 'development') {
@@ -257,6 +273,10 @@ export class About extends React.Component<IAboutProps, IAboutState> {
       return
     }
 
+    if (__LINUX__) {
+      return
+    }
+
     return (
       <div>
         <p className="no-padding">Looking for the latest features?</p>
diff --git a/app/src/ui/lib/releases.ts b/app/src/ui/lib/releases.ts
index 958ccad3722..ba088f73374 100644
--- a/app/src/ui/lib/releases.ts
+++ b/app/src/ui/lib/releases.ts
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@ export const ReleaseNotesUri =
   __RELEASE_CHANNEL__ === 'beta'
     ? 'https://desktop.github.com/release-notes/?env=beta'
     : 'https://desktop.github.com/release-notes/'
+
+export const LinuxReleasesUri = 'https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases/'