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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 nullpoint420 »

9dev wrote: post #174
nullpoint420 wrote: post #146

I'm still surprised at how many developers still turn their noses up at using Linux. Like... You already use Docker and deploy to K8S... On Linux...

I don’t really care about the OS. I want a beefy laptop with a good keyboard and trackpad, long battery life, and a crisp screen. Preferably very silent, bonus points for a clean design. That’s the value proposition of a MacBook.

I get it. I wish there were more great laptop makers. I had a maxed out 16in M2 Max MacBook Pro, now I have an 15in M3 MBA. I also have a maxed out HP G1A Ultra running Fedora. They’re all excellent.

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

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Post by nullpoint420 »

greggsy wrote: post #256
nullpoint420 wrote: post #146

I'm still surprised at how many developers still turn their noses up at using Linux. Like... You already use Docker and deploy to K8S... On Linux...

Desktop and server are two wildly different support surfaces

Fair, but it’s electron. They can just add a new target and recompile the native libraries they’re using for Linux.

It’s really not that hard.

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

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Post by trumpdong »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #202
trumpdong wrote: post #106

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

You wouldn't run an engineering company with 500 engineers reporting directly to the CEO. AI doesn't solve this. You need humans who can understand and verify what is being made.

Their whole value proposition is based on the fact that you no longer do.

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

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Post by trumpdong »

GrayShade wrote: post #147
trumpdong wrote: post #98

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Reminds me that I occasionally have to set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 because it's not always inherited from my login shell. Otherwise Java windows won't display anything because I suppose Java waits for them to be reparented.

On systemd, you can use ~/.config/environment.d to set it. Don't rely on your shell.

Screw systemd

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

pixl97 wrote: post #200
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #107

I love the dueling messages on AI "It'll make software easy and replace all software jobs!" "Sorry, a Linux client is too hard and too much work!"

Interesting take away, but one that I'd think is intrinsically wrong. The Linux desktop is fragmented and gatekept in such a manner that most people of a reasonable mind aren't going to waste tokens on it, and damned sure not going to waste software/support engineer time on it. Note that none of these complaints are about CLI or server software. "Linux" the kernel + GNU utils + shell handle all of this just fine. The…

Meh. Don't package it then. They could start by releasing source. The Linux community might be fragmented but they're also good at packaging software!

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

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Post by braiamp »

I find interesting that so many people say that this is a hard problem, while Discord puts this nugget:

> Are you a Linux user? If so, are you sick of that lovely modal we made to tell you that there’s an update you need to go manually install? IF SO, boy do I have good news for you. We’ve ported our Rust-based updater to Linux, allowing Linux to update itself just like on Windows. Additionally, we now support .rpm and .pkg.tar.zst package formats for installation.

They have more challenging clients: have to deal with screencapture, audio capture, audio routing, meanwhile supporting 3 different package repositories. You just have to accept that you should be updating your build/runtime dependencies with each version as long as they fix your underlying problems. Having a single binary that you release and works, implies that you are shipping every library your binary depends on. Windows takes care of that with winsxs, Linux asks you to do it yourself.

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

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Post by dsubburam »

dang wrote: post #254
jkwang wrote: post #55

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I have been running Claude Desktop on Linux via the unofficial Debian build for months and it is solid. The unofficial repo at github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian works well for both Debian and RPM-based distros. That said, an official build would make a huge difference for enterprise adoption. Many companies have policies against unofficial packages, and the signing + update mechanism is always going to be mor…

Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 . Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but most of your posts are getting classified that way. You obviously have good points to make and are welcome here! but if you'd please wri…

I do not know what fraction of LLM-processed messages are due to posters not being confident in their written English. To the extent that it is meaningful, we can

a) be welcoming and indicate that we're OK with broken English (content and intent typically do get through), and/or

b) allow posting in languages other than English (does this even work right now?).

Above probably ahead of its time, but thought I'd just make the suggestion.

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

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Post by kombine »

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

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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.

> We are sick of devs thinking their app is so important it needs a visual presence at all times

KDE Plasma allows hide selected applications from the tray and make those accessible in a popup window. The solution to this problem is not to remove the feature entirely, but actually implement it properly.

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