13 GIGS! Between that and the absorbent space MACOS sucks up, it's challenging.
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
#82and on my Mac any time I accidentally click Cowork which I don't use whatsoever, it re-makes the same VM, without asking me. It's one of the dumbest things ever. You're about to hijack nearly 20GB of my storage (which gets eaten up as it is) and you don't think to ask me if I even want the VM before you shove one into my system?
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#83I have two friends that are using coding agents on Windows, which was surprising to learn. Edit: yes, with WSL2 I believe in both cases. I would have assumed almost everyone would get a Mac/Linux computer to use coding agents because Unix is their "native" platform. It's Bash tool calls all the way down. Does anyone know a source for reliable data on what coding agent apps devs are using? How many are using Code Clau…
I mean I’m using coding agents on windows, because I’m not just going to learn a whole new operating system just to make robots write code for me.
I want tools that meet me where I’m at, not tools that demand I change up my entire UX to interact with them.
The assumption is not “what’s wrong with Windows that it doesn’t work with ,” more “what’s wrong with that it doesn’t work with Windows”
Why wouldn’t you want your thing to be cross platform
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm obviously not just prompting agents for everything. What are you on about? Why would I build my little web-apps and backends in the cloud when I can run things faster locally?
> Why would I build my little web-apps and backends in the cloud when I can run things faster locally? Because the company that designed and built your Chromebook made that the easy path.
And one interesting aspect is the number of children getting these types of neutered machines as their first learning tool. I read another thread comment saying people that started with react actually feel that using straight html is more complicated. My professors say that the best textbook is the one you've read. The next generation is being indoctrinated into this way of thinking
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#85I also discovered this while
noticing my Mac was low on storage, I only clicked on cowork once and after deleting it from the folder i’m scared to
open the cowork tab coz ik it’ll just fill up the space
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
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”?
as AI native developer I need VS code forks for AI to be pre-installed. Also every single command or work need to be vetted by AI by default. I am going hardcore now.
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#87The VM itself is for Claude Cowork which does all work within the VM sandbox. That doesn't help answer why they spin it up immediately and don't have a way to disable it though. Just the "why it exists" question.
If you're not going to give Claude access to anything on your machine, why are you using Desktop instead of web chat? (Real question, I don't use these much!) If you are, obviously you need the VM.
I do use Claude Cowork and hence the VM is important, but I also leave the desktop app running all the time since I have many scheduled tasks at different times. The thing is that the VM could shutdown after being idle for some amount of time and then fire back up when you are ready to use it.
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#88> without no way
Not no way not no how!
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#89Isn’t it good that it spins up without no way of stopping it? Why would it be a problem that we do have a way of stopping it?
All your RAM are belong to us
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#90Please edit the title. Currently "Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it" Should be "Claude Desktop spins up a VM with no way of stopping it"
There are some English dialects with negative concord, meaning that to form the negation of a sentence, you negate all negateable words in it
Yeah, no.