Goodness, what an unreasonably long description for an issue.
Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
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Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#282Goodness, what an unreasonably long description for an issue.
It sounds like a number of less comprehensive issues on this topic were closed without adequate explanation, so the author wanted to be sure to comprehensively explain why the issue was valid and what they were looking for.
Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#283Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#284Earlier 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…
Couldn't just a single Flatpak release be sufficient? Flatpak can be set up on many/most distros.
Flatpack packages everything under one distributable, but doesn't solve the quirkiness of all the different frontends, backend, compositors, etc.
- titlebar
- tray icon w/light and dark mode support
- global keyboard shortcut
- redraw events after resizing
Those are a subset of the many items that don't play well between various distros.
Like Ubuntu Gnome w/X11 vs Pop!OS COSMIC w/Wayland or any of the tiling window managers like hyprland.
Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#285I hope they don’t. I hope somehow inexplicably Goose or something wins.
Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#286Hey! 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…
The problem is using the build system. Using Nix flakes could help alleviate a lot of concerns, I wrapped a target meant for debian. After wrapping it with a flake, it worked on NixOS. But since I'm building it declaratively and not imperatively, it could target any distribution, even mac. I've done this with Bitwig, https://github.com/ArikRahman/Nixwig and Jank lang (https://github.com/jank-lang/jank) in this PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/523741
Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#287Hey! 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.
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…
I appreciate it! Glad it's working for you.
I'll be happy the day there's an official distribution and I can put the repo to rest
Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#288Anthropic is missing the plot by not releasing even the CLI (tui) claude code as open source. On the other hand, Codex is so garbage that as soon as they catch up it will be done for Claude.
Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#289Boris from the team here — we’re looking into it.
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#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> You wouldn't run an engineering company with 500 engineers reporting directly to the CEO.
Jack Dorsey wants to prove you wrong!