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The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by NeutralWanted »

comboy wrote: post #15
xnx wrote: post #5

The amount of products and updates shipping from the AI-invigorated Google is mind-boggling. They are leading or highly competitive in every AI segment: foundation model, open-weights model, video model, image model, world model, AI IDE, AI CLI, text-to-music, text-to-speech, etc. etc. etc.

Tried antigravity and cli a few times. I'm unable to handle that prodigious toddler. Are you guys able to make use of it?

Been using it for work and personal daily since release. First few weeks were rough but it's probably the best AI code editor out right now. But that's largely due to the models just be superior

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by NeutralWanted »

nozzlegear wrote: post #11
exabrial wrote: post #3

> The Gemini app is now available as a native macOS experience Ok Google, this is well-earned. This is enough to make me try Gemini over Claude. I'm so fed up with _fucking_ self-updating Electron apps. One day it's working, next day its not. I'd rather just have releases once it's confirmed working, and something I can roll back if it breaks. I have work to get done, and it's like rolling the dice right now every da…

I'm so fed up with _fucking_ self-updating Electron apps. Logging into Discord once a day and it opens and closes itself 3 times while that stupid logo spins and says it's fetching 1 out of 8 updates. What the hell. I actually hate Discord, I would migrate in a heartbeat if I didn't think it'd kill my WoW guild.

I've mentioned to my guild using mumble and irc (via The lounge) jokingly but secretly hoping they are as fed up as I am with discord.. it'll never happen sadly.

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by mistercheese »

NeutralWanted wrote: post #39
hk1337 wrote: post #38

Man, I’ve spent so many years now without google, I want to try it because I want to try different agents but I don’t really want to setup google on my MacBook. Does this have console like Claude and codex? --- I was able to install and use Gemini on macOS fine authentication worked. I had some issues authenticating with the cli app, some certificate issues. Once I got past the certificate issues, now it will not let…

The best by far IMO. gemini-cli

Out of curiosity, why do you like gemini-cli better than claude or codex? And do you have any comparisons to opencode or pi?

Personally I've really liked OpenCode's TUI, but maybe on a superficial level of "this looks good and feels ergonomic to me".

Gemini cli felt clunky for me when I tried a while ago, but maybe it's better now? I do like how it's open source and I'm wondering if it can be made as model agnostic as OpenCode.

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by esperent »

NeutralWanted wrote: post #39
hk1337 wrote: post #38

Man, I’ve spent so many years now without google, I want to try it because I want to try different agents but I don’t really want to setup google on my MacBook. Does this have console like Claude and codex? --- I was able to install and use Gemini on macOS fine authentication worked. I had some issues authenticating with the cli app, some certificate issues. Once I got past the certificate issues, now it will not let…

The best by far IMO. gemini-cli

At least as of about 6 weeks ago, Gemini cli was a buggy mess. I ended up hitting bugs every 30-60 minutes that required completely resetting (clearing the cache, logging out and in) and then if I resumed an old chat the bug was back.

I saw a joke on Reddit: Anthropic doesn't let you use claude with 3rd party harnesses. Google doesn't even let you use Gemini with their own harness.

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by 3vidence »

phamilton wrote: post #36
shrx wrote: post #9

Meanwhile, I still can't use Gemini as my Android Auto assistant.

I just got it last week. Still a few quirks, but positive so far.

It seems to forget about what I do and don't have access to (in terms of apps). I've had to remind it that I have Spotify and YT music more than once.

Other than that agreed going okay so far.

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by dzhiurgis »

hk1337 wrote: post #38

Man, I’ve spent so many years now without google, I want to try it because I want to try different agents but I don’t really want to setup google on my MacBook. Does this have console like Claude and codex? --- I was able to install and use Gemini on macOS fine authentication worked. I had some issues authenticating with the cli app, some certificate issues. Once I got past the certificate issues, now it will not let…

Yeah I've been google search free for few years now, but gemini feels like google's renaissance.

I used gemini for past few months as using Safari's add to dock feature. Been waiting for gemini app tho as web version is just so buggy.

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by robot_jesus »

syntaxing wrote: post #32

Any way to run this on Gemma 4 only? If there was a “local” mode, I would seriously think about installing this.

Out of curiosity, why not just try it with one of the many local managers like LM Studio or Ollama or oMLX, etc?

The Gemini app is kind of terrible (apart from the models) but Gemma 4 runs great locally already.

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