Re:Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Sunday June 07, 2026 @06:49PM
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Meh. Don't package it then. They could start by releasing source. The Linux community might be fragmented but they're also good at packaging software!
Re:Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
by pixl97 on Monday June 08, 2026 @11:28AM
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Ah yes, the "Everything should be open source", which would be perfect in a perfect world, but alas, we don't live in one of those.
Until that point expect Linux desktop to be a third class citizen.
The Linux desktop is fragmented and gatekept in such a manner that most people of a reasonable mind aren't going to waste tokens on it, and damned sure not going to waste software/support engineer time on it.
Note that none of these complaints are about CLI or server software. "Linux" the kernel + GNU utils + shell handle all of this just fine. The year of the Linux desktop is just never going to happen unless one desktop standard takes over and 'wins' in the short to medium term.
Now, in the longer term when tokens run cheap maybe we'll successfully have 20 different competing, incompatible Linux deskstops, but it doesn't seem likely.