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Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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Post by WD-42 »

Aurornis wrote: post #64
aaddrick wrote: post #26

Hey! I manage the unofficial build at https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian Debian is in the name, but scope has grown to all backends, compositors, etc. The main reason must companies don't publish Linux electron apps is fragmentation. If you're doing anything more than rendering a webpage as an app, it starts to get complicated. I've got a bank of VM's setup for testing, and I still need it up.

> The main reason must companies don't publish Linux electron apps is fragmentation. If you're doing anything more than rendering a webpage as an app, it starts to get complicated. Can confirm. At a past company we worked hard to release a Linux desktop client for our customers who wanted it, even though the number was small. It turns into compatibility hell very fast. You think you can target a couple recent Ubuntu…

Did you hire a Linux release engineer? Or was the situation the typical team of devs maining macOS that have never heard the term “Wayland” before plus That One Guy who switched to Ubuntu last year and advocated for it?

There are companies that do this right. But it often requires a hire. Too many companies think they can just yolo it because Linux isn’t a serious OS or whatever and then are surprised when it doesn’t work out well.

Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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Post by trumpdong »

tormeh wrote: post #92
Aurornis wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> These angry customers are a symptom of having more customers; No, it's a symptom of having more of a very specific type of customer who is more demanding and difficult to please than your other customers. When you don't officially support Linux, the Linux users are not surprised. It's normal for them. They find other ways to use the product. When you do announce Linux support, you open Pandora's box of complaints.…

This is when you say "We support Ubuntu", and honestly that's fine.

Indeed. You make anything past that the customer's problem. I have a few Ubuntu apps that needed a bit of jiggery-pokery to make them run on not-Ubuntu.

Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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Post by aaddrick »

freedomben wrote: post #37
aaddrick wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still mess it up* Swipe keyboards on mobile are awful, but I can't break that habit.

Nice, you have RPMs and DEBs in a remote repo we can add! Thanks for making it so easy to use :-) Also, I can't break the swipe keyboard habit either. It's the worst, but still better than the alternatives. Someday I hope physical keyboard makes a return (but I"m not holding my breath)

You're welcome!

Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

#106

Post by trumpdong »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #95
Retr0id wrote: post #5

If only Anthropic had some kind of automated tool that was good at porting software

Even if you can create infinite software you still have to be very intentional about what you’re choosing to work on. There’s still a cost to testing, support, planning, etc even if coding is now “free”

If only Anthropic had some kind of automated testing, support, planning machine.

Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

#108

Post by WD-42 »

aaddrick wrote: post #87
Aurornis wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The main reason must companies don't publish Linux electron apps is fragmentation. If you're doing anything more than rendering a webpage as an app, it starts to get complicated. Can confirm. At a past company we worked hard to release a Linux desktop client for our customers who wanted it, even though the number was small. It turns into compatibility hell very fast. You think you can target a couple recent Ubuntu…

Yeah. I just dropped another repackaging repo for Wispr Flow. https://github.com/wispr-flow-linux/wispr-flow-linux A lot of that is keyboard shortcuts for push-to-talk. Easy right? X11 is mostly fine, but the world is moving into Wayland. Wayland doesn't have shortcuts native and relies on xdg-desktop-portal, which in turn relies on each backend to implement it's own version. COSMIC from the Pop!OS team's xdg-desktop…

A lot of us are happy gnome doesn’t support tray icons. We are sick of devs thinking their app is so important it needs a visual presence at all times. If I need your app I’ll bring it to the foreground, we have the technology.

Global shortcuts definitely a pain point with Wayland but the portals are making progress.

Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

#109

Post by orhmeh09 »

aaddrick wrote: post #26

Hey! I manage the unofficial build at https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian Debian is in the name, but scope has grown to all backends, compositors, etc. The main reason must companies don't publish Linux electron apps is fragmentation. If you're doing anything more than rendering a webpage as an app, it starts to get complicated. I've got a bank of VM's setup for testing, and I still need it up.

Sounds like a job for a more capable LLM than Opus.

Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

#110

Post by jm4 »

WD-42 wrote: post #108
aaddrick wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. I just dropped another repackaging repo for Wispr Flow. https://github.com/wispr-flow-linux/wispr-flow-linux A lot of that is keyboard shortcuts for push-to-talk. Easy right? X11 is mostly fine, but the world is moving into Wayland. Wayland doesn't have shortcuts native and relies on xdg-desktop-portal, which in turn relies on each backend to implement it's own version. COSMIC from the Pop!OS team's xdg-desktop…

A lot of us are happy gnome doesn’t support tray icons. We are sick of devs thinking their app is so important it needs a visual presence at all times. If I need your app I’ll bring it to the foreground, we have the technology. Global shortcuts definitely a pain point with Wayland but the portals are making progress.

I don't like tray icons. What I like less is an app that runs in the background anyway when I didn't ask it to and that behavior is hidden. It's infuriating to "quit" an app and it's still there. At least gnome finally addressed that with the little background apps widget.
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