clients: claude desktop for Linux

[practicalli-johnny]

As of writing Anthropic only provide Claude Desktop for macOS and Windows. There is no official Linux distribution.

Community efforts

• https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian - recent updates
• https://github.com/bsneed/claude-desktop-fedora
• https://github.com/k3d3/claude-desktop-linux-flake
• https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-arch
• https://github.com/jkoelker/claude-desktop-native
• https://github.com/yousshark/claude-desktop-debian - security focus, but behind aaddrick it was forked from

Petition for a Native Linux Claude Desktop

Roll your own

ghcr.io/anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts:computer-use-demo-latest

sudo docker run -e ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=$(cat anthropic-key.txt) -v $HOME/.anthropic:/home/computeruse/.anthropic -p 5900:5900 -p 8501:8501 -p 6080:6080 -p 8080:8080 -it

Which is at https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts/