Re:Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
by sgt on Sunday June 07, 2026 @03:55PM
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Tons and yeah of course some are also Electron apps but not all... Proprietary apps I can think of include Chrome, Teams until a few years ago (I think they just gave up), Steam, the JetBrains IDE's, Cursor, Discord, Matlab, ...
Of course a lot of Linux users these days just live their lives through browsers. That's pretty sad.
Re:Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
by WD-42 on Sunday June 07, 2026 @04:38PM
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Chrome: Is electron without electron
Teams: Was electron
Steam: Valve is deeply invested in Linux, this isn't them just shipping an app. Different category.
Jetbrains: Java
Cursor: Electron
Discord: Electron
Matlab: Java
ABI compatibility doesn't matter for any of your examples.
Re:Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
by wqaatwt on Monday June 08, 2026 @02:48AM
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> Different category
Isn’t Steam mostly webviews though ?
> Java
Well.. It’s not that massively different from running Qt apps in Gnome, though?
> ABI compatibility
I’m sure it matters for Swing to an large extent. Of course it the problem of the people developing the UI framework rather than the end app
The only proprietary software I have running on my machine is electron apps, which are essentially bloated VMs. As we’ve seen from this thread, this is still apparently too great of an engineering feat for anthropic to tackle. I don’t think I’m unique in this regard.