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Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

layoric wrote: post #62
result2vino wrote: post #35

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Hardly a dumpster fire, moving to Linux from Windows is by far the best thing I’ve done for my work and sanity using a computer. For macOS users might be less of a reason, but aside from video editing workflow, has been a smooth process, and highly recommended for devs to give it another go.

Distributing for linux sucks. There are dozen different ways to install applications and not a single format could be installed by say top 5 distro. I was hopeful for Snap, but it is awful in my experience. Unless the package is managed by the distribution itself, installing it sucks. e.g. Here is link for chromium binaries for linux[1].

[1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by suby »

Wytwwww wrote: post #83
suby wrote: post #59

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Linux Desktop isn't perfect, but it's in no way a dumpster fire. I'm much happier using Linux than any other viable alternative. Your experience clearly differs, but I personally have very few complaints at this point. Calling it a dumpster fire is extreme hyperbole. I'm hoping they're incentivized to support Linux just based on the developer market share of Linux. The StackOverflow developer survey looks like it unf…

> but at the top level 27% of developers are using Ubuntu desktop. That seems very unlikely. The sample is of course probably extremely unrepresentative. Also I wouldn't be surprised if selection bias might have a significant effect (a lot of Linux users can't help but try and publicize the fact even if nobody is asking, so imagine what they do when someone does ask... Windows is likely the opposite).

I'm sure stack overflow is a biased subset of users, and I imagine the people that fill out tech surveys are going to be more likely to use Linux. But it's the best data source on this that I know of. Regardless of the exact market share percent, I think it's a reasonable assumption that there are millions of developers using it as a desktop OS.

Along those lines too, I don't have evidence but I'd bet that the type of developer who uses Linux is more likely to integrate new tech like LLM's into their workflow than someone whose on Windows.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by nicce »

ethbr1 wrote: post #53
stephencoyner wrote: post #31

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Native desktop apps give these companies access to more system-level functions which will be super useful for... - Voice dictation / interactions - Agents accessing other applications and controlling your desktop - Agents performing background tasks like continuous monitoring, periodic data processing, or ongoing analysis I would expect to see these kind of features start to take off next year

Also data mining! :)

> - Agents performing background tasks like continuous monitoring, periodic data processing, or ongoing analysis

Who said that this was to help the end user!

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by kristjansson »

lambdaba wrote: post #32
stephencoyner wrote: post #31

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Native desktop apps give these companies access to more system-level functions which will be super useful for... - Voice dictation / interactions - Agents accessing other applications and controlling your desktop - Agents performing background tasks like continuous monitoring, periodic data processing, or ongoing analysis I would expect to see these kind of features start to take off next year

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.

The shortcut can be changed. Open the app settings from the menu bar, or the usual Command-, shortcut, and it's the only setting they expose.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by mrtesthah »

pjmlp wrote: post #44
result2vino wrote: post #39

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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.

They're called desktop applications for a reason. Browser apps should run in a browser.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by adhamsalama »

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #91
layoric wrote: post #62

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Hardly a dumpster fire, moving to Linux from Windows is by far the best thing I’ve done for my work and sanity using a computer. For macOS users might be less of a reason, but aside from video editing workflow, has been a smooth process, and highly recommended for devs to give it another go.

Distributing for linux sucks. There are dozen different ways to install applications and not a single format could be installed by say top 5 distro. I was hopeful for Snap, but it is awful in my experience. Unless the package is managed by the distribution itself, installing it sucks. e.g. Here is link for chromium binaries for linux[1]. [1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...

Flatpak?

Re: Claude for Desktop

#100

Post by mixmastamyk »

cxvrfr wrote: post #80
layoric wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hardly a dumpster fire, moving to Linux from Windows is by far the best thing I’ve done for my work and sanity using a computer. For macOS users might be less of a reason, but aside from video editing workflow, has been a smooth process, and highly recommended for devs to give it another go.

Tried OpenSUSE recently. They describe 3 different ways on how to install Nvidia drivers in their docs. Not a single worked, had to install manually (which kinds of beats the entire purpose of using a rolling distro). Could try something else but seem but slightly like a waste of time. Also the DE situation seems pretty bad... KDE would seem alright but its buggy and unpolished. Gnome is an abomination designed for t…

Don’t use nvidia with Linux if you want easy. That’s nvidia’s problem. I use Fedora/gnome/phosh on a tablet and it’s getting better every day. Already meets my video tablet needs and could do office and games etc.
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