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Claude Desktop for Linux

11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2025-03-19 · latest 2026-06-10

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    Coding is solved: one guy reverse-engineered Claude Desktop for Linux via Claude
    story by landsman · 2026-06-10 · 0 comments
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    Claude Desktop for Linux
    story by speckx · 2026-06-09 · 0 comments
  3. …Claude Desktop on Linux via the unofficial Debian build for months and it is solid. The unofficial repo at github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian works well for both Debian and RPM-based distros. That said, an official build would make…
  4. Hey! I manage the unofficial build at https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian Debian is in the name, but scope has grown to all backends, compositors, etc. The main reason must companies don't publish Linux electron apps is…
  5. …trigger my spawn swarm detector, I just closed it. Don't think I'll ever touch it again. [0] https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian
  6. …officially exist on Linux. There are Debian packages that repackage the electron code though: https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian
  7. …(x86) support? There is only unofficial build: Claude Desktop for Debian-based Linux distributions https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian
  8. …they ship the builds, although unsupported for Linux. Not ideal, but that's something. [1] [0]: https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian [1]: https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/
    comment by xaviervn · 2026-02-19 · in Made codex app run on Windows
  9. I am running this OK in Ubuntu 2404 : https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian Claude Desktop for Debian-based Linux distributions From Claude I have connected to these MCP servers OK : @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem,…
  10. I have seen this repo on github, I don't really know a lot about Linux but could be interesting. https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian
  11. …Desktop seems to be the main (or only?) choice. Note that Claude Desktop can be run on Linux using https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian , which repackages the Windows version to run on Linux (it's an Electron app, so it just…