If only Anthropic had some kind of automated tool that was good at porting software
It doesn't sound like that's the bottleneck.
Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
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Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#42Hey! 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.
Still mess it up* Swipe keyboards on mobile are awful, but I can't break that habit.
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Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mainly: true sandbox separation. I don't want the model having full access to my machine. With a dump format that Claude understands, I'm able to pass only the files I want Claude to see, and he can't break any of them. I don't care about setting up access lists and so on. I don't trust that the cli product will be properly sanboxed and it's quite clear their software offerings are largely aigen code, and I catch bug…
There are a number of utilities for this. I use jai: https://jai.scs.stanford.edu/ but also have seen nono: https://github.com/always-further/nono smolvm: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm zerobox https://github.com/afshinm/zerobox and matchlock https://github.com/jingkaihe/matchlock They all have pros and cons. Pick the one that suits you best. Then you're also agent harness flexible (I use opencode).
As a jai and linux user, myself, looking at nono's os-sandbox (from here [1]) it seems nice too. Thanks for the recommend I was looking for something that might be nice on Mac and nono seems good to recommend to coworkers and the like.
Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#44Personally I don’t understand why Claude Code doesn’t have a mode to make text green and characters come down from the top of the screen individually, like in The Matrix.
Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. Same experience as my non-Linux coworkers, so we can share learnings and processes 2. Scheduled tasks that run locally ( https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13854387-schedule-rec... ) importantly different from Claude Code routines 3. Multiple projects/isolated memories in the same folder 4. Better UI
> Scheduled tasks that run locally ( https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13854387-schedule-rec ... ) importantly different from Claude Code routines What do people do with these? I don't use Claude but when I did I couldn't think of anything useful to do with the routines. I'm probably not being imaginative enough.
Some good ideas here: https://posthog.com/blog/making-claude-cowork-actually-usefu...
Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#46What do you miss from the Desktop app that the CLI doesn’t cover? I’m mostly on Linux too and have just been using the CLI, so I’m curious.
I don't think the CLI offers daily routines under the Anthropic subscription anymore? There's also the cross conversation memory search, which uses a different conversation dataset (the Claude Web / Claude.AI conversations) than Claude Code does. I'm not even sure Claude Code does cross conversation search? The Desktop interface also presents Markdown as formatted text and presents artifacts (especially interactive o…
> All that said - I actually use the CLI for nearly everything (even on Windows).
I also haven't touched routines, but I use cc to write automation tasks that will integrate a model when I need an inference layer. Which I also did before routines..
Have people actually been using routines effectively?
Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#47What do you miss from the Desktop app that the CLI doesn’t cover? I’m mostly on Linux too and have just been using the CLI, so I’m curious.
Mainly: true sandbox separation. I don't want the model having full access to my machine. With a dump format that Claude understands, I'm able to pass only the files I want Claude to see, and he can't break any of them. I don't care about setting up access lists and so on. I don't trust that the cli product will be properly sanboxed and it's quite clear their software offerings are largely aigen code, and I catch bug…
On Linux you have bubblewrap!
Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#48What do you miss from the Desktop app that the CLI doesn’t cover? I’m mostly on Linux too and have just been using the CLI, so I’m curious.
I don't think the CLI offers daily routines under the Anthropic subscription anymore? There's also the cross conversation memory search, which uses a different conversation dataset (the Claude Web / Claude.AI conversations) than Claude Code does. I'm not even sure Claude Code does cross conversation search? The Desktop interface also presents Markdown as formatted text and presents artifacts (especially interactive o…
> I don't think the CLI offers daily routines under the Anthropic subscription anymore?
It (Claude Code) does, I discovered it by accident recently, having never used daily routines before. Haven't touched Claude Desktop at all, outside of playing with it for 30 mins or so months ago.
TLDR: I used Claude Code to build a command that scrapes job postings from a few employers I am interested in (it is a bit more complicated than that, but that's the gist). At the end CC asked me "do you want me to re-run it daily?" I said yes, and it generated a daily routine and gave me a URL to my anthropic account page where I can see all my daily routines.
There, it says that I am currently using up 1 out of 15 "free" daily routines that come with my personal subscription, and I would have to pay extra if I want to have more than 15 active at a time (I assume by switching to per-token pricing for anything beyond 15, but not sure).
Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#49Yes please! I think it's just kinda weird that this hasn't been done yet.
Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
#50If only Anthropic had some kind of automated tool that was good at porting software
You forgot the *allegedly in there.