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by M95D 3 days ago
> Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

Which desktop? Which destop version? Which libc? Which versions of the gazillion of other libs it depends on?

I can take a Total Commander version from a time when it was called "Windows Commander", compiled for Win95, and it would still run in latest updated Win11. Try that with a linux program!

(BTW, for Total Commander it works the other way too: latest Tcmd still runs in Win95.)
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Zetaphor 3 days ago
This was covered in the issue itself, in fact the issue is pretty well documented with regards to the packaging:

> Publish an official Claude Desktop build for Linux, targeting the two current Ubuntu LTS releases (and Debian) as a signed .deb via an Anthropic-operated apt repository, using the same distribution pipeline Claude Code already uses for Linux.

Also Flatpak or AppImage would make this accessible to every other distro. Alternatively you could run the deb with a Podman Toolbox.

Your point about backwards compatibility with Windows goes both ways, I have old games that I can _only_ run on Linux as they don't work on modern versions of Windows.

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