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Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
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Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#32I’ve stopped using Claude on the desktop, just because of how slow the app is to start up and interact with. It’s an absolute clunker; I’m mystified why they can’t ship something that works well given their rhetoric about ai.
I thought they were all in on agentic coding? They are probably just building at a surface level with only an eye towards shipping, without considering the impact of all the changes. I've seen less and less coordination between engineers as well under that model. If that's the case (Claude Code is this way). it is sort of what you get, no matter the rhetoric about "make sure to review all your changes!" It's always trade offs.
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#33I’ve stopped using Claude on the desktop, just because of how slow the app is to start up and interact with. It’s an absolute clunker; I’m mystified why they can’t ship something that works well given their rhetoric about ai.
I uninstalled it because I have no need for Claude Desktop and there’s no way to keep the 10+ GiB VM image off of my machine
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#34I’ve stopped using Claude on the desktop, just because of how slow the app is to start up and interact with. It’s an absolute clunker; I’m mystified why they can’t ship something that works well given their rhetoric about ai.
Guaranteed nobody is reading the code being merged in. It's vibes all the way down.
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#35Why are the UIs of the AI companies all broken in multiple ways?
They are moving at breakneck speed deploying on scales most of us can't even imagine. They are working in a space that's completely unexplored where getting information as quickly as possible is preferred above iterating on some feature until it's "done" while your competitor has released fifteen other features, all sucky, but one of which turns out to be a killer and makes a billion bucks overnight.
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#36This all feels like a race where the model companies try to solve doing work locally in a way that doesn't suck, before the major operating systems companies figure out AI integration into their OS that doesn't suck. It also makes me wonder why Google which has both Gemini and Android can't figure this out, and if there are lessons to draw from that.
They are releasing AluminumOS with their Googlebooks, which is a AI forward OS. If its good or not we have yet to see.
It's looking like a slightly updated reskin of chromeOS with gemini features built in.
Definitely not a developer machine based on how they presented it in google IO. So if you write software, it's not looking like it'll be relevant whatsoever. I hope to be proven wrong.
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#37I’ve stopped using Claude on the desktop, just because of how slow the app is to start up and interact with. It’s an absolute clunker; I’m mystified why they can’t ship something that works well given their rhetoric about ai.
I'm with you. I have the Claude web app pinned as a PWA for quick queries, and then use the CLI for everything project-based.
I did consider experimenting with the Routines feature on the desktop app, but I'm leaning towards whipping together something with cron. I saw another poster here who has a daily PR summary routine that I think would be handy, as I have quite a few repos where I'm a sporadic contributor but would like to keep tabs.
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are releasing AluminumOS with their Googlebooks, which is a AI forward OS. If its good or not we have yet to see.
It's looking like a slightly updated reskin of chromeOS with gemini features built in. Definitely not a developer machine based on how they presented it in google IO. So if you write software, it's not looking like it'll be relevant whatsoever. I hope to be proven wrong.
If everything is in the cloud and you are just prompting agents to code for you, what exactly is “a developer machine”?
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#39I’ve stopped using Claude on the desktop, just because of how slow the app is to start up and interact with. It’s an absolute clunker; I’m mystified why they can’t ship something that works well given their rhetoric about ai.
Guaranteed nobody is reading the code being merged in. It's vibes all the way down.
Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#40I’ve stopped using Claude on the desktop, just because of how slow the app is to start up and interact with. It’s an absolute clunker; I’m mystified why they can’t ship something that works well given their rhetoric about ai.
They vibecoded it, and admitted as much. Once it was able to self-vibecode, that's all they did. That's why it's written in React and uses gigabytes of RAM as a chat client.