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Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by result2vino »

entropicdrifter wrote: post #3
kennethwolters wrote: post #2

can someone tell me what the difference is to the webclient? Seems like a webview to me. No local caching/store.

Kids these days insist that they need the "app" of something, even when it's literally the exact same thing as the webpage. Between this phenomenon and the refusal of many to close tabs in their browsers, I can't help but wonder if a huge percentage of the populace have never heard of or used Bookmarks on their web browsers before.

You aren’t as wise and smart as you think you are. Perhaps people just have different preferences to you?

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by lambdaba »

stephencoyner wrote: post #34
lambdaba wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh I agree, but this is definitely not it, I don't understand why Anthropic released this, other than squatting the same keyboard shortcut the ChatGPT app uses, with no ability to change it :P.

By not it, do you mean those features aren’t available yet, or you don’t see the value in them?

I do see value, but the Claude app is just a webview with a keyboard shortcut, I don't even think it has voice dictation, I uninstalled it immediately.

Re: Claude for Desktop

#43

Post by pjmlp »

hulitupulii wrote: post #27
yboris wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a simplistic (and I think erroneous) view of Electron! You can't spare 40mb of RAM?

Probably a mac user. Those devices are low in ram.

Windows/Linux over here and anti lazy developers that help Google spread their browser monoculture.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by pjmlp »

result2vino wrote: post #39
hulitupulii wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably a mac user. Those devices are low in ram.

I use macOS and don’t really have complaints about the few Electron apps that I use daily. “Electron bad!” is as much of a cargo culted snobby HN myth as “Macs have no RAM!”

Electron bad ===> Couldn't be bothered to learn how to do proper Web development and Google is my overlord.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by pjmlp »

yesco wrote: post #13
pjmlp wrote: post #10

An Electron app is anything but fast.

It can be faster than a normal web page depending on how they configure it though.

Indeed not everyone is able to write Web sites with good performance across multiple browsers, that is 3l1t3 skill, better ship Chrome alongside the application.

Re: Claude for Desktop

#47

Post by skydhash »

yboris wrote: post #24
pjmlp wrote: post #10

An Electron app is anything but fast.

What a simplistic (and I think erroneous) view of Electron! You can't spare 40mb of RAM?

It's more like 400MB due to how they're packaged. And when you could have it run with 10x to 20x less RAM, it just scream "we don't care about you". Not everyone have 64GB RAM and 22 cores of CPU in their laptop.

It's like using a semi-truck (with the trailer attached) to go buy groceries 100 meters away.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by __jonas »

Nesco wrote: post #37
Nesco wrote: post #30

On macOS, why have an electron app when you can add the webpage to the dock as a PWA?

Here is the comparison: Claude Electron app vs Claude Safari PWA Pros: * Can be opened with a customizable shortcut * Takes less RAM (400 MiB Cons: * Needs to be downloaded * Weight 150 MiB * Slower to start * Loose language localisation * Loose Safari's capabilities: - Printing the content of the current page - Speech2Text - Accessibility - ...

The whole electron app uses less RAM than the page opened as a PWA? That’s surprising to me, how come? I somehow thought Safari was more memory efficient than Chromium

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by Wissenschafter »

skydhash wrote: post #47
yboris wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a simplistic (and I think erroneous) view of Electron! You can't spare 40mb of RAM?

It's more like 400MB due to how they're packaged. And when you could have it run with 10x to 20x less RAM, it just scream "we don't care about you". Not everyone have 64GB RAM and 22 cores of CPU in their laptop. It's like using a semi-truck (with the trailer attached) to go buy groceries 100 meters away.

The fact people prefer webapps over native locally run software because of '400MB' honestly pisses me off it's so stupidly trivial.
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