Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
Key takeaways
- Related: #47316 (closed), #38276 (closed as out of scope for this repo), #36011 (stale).
- On scope: this issue concerns Claude Code in two concrete ways.
- What this issue is asking for A public Anthropic position on Linux desktop support, and ideally a first-party build.
The closest open issue is #40347. Related: #47316 (closed), #38276 (closed as out of scope for this repo), #36011 (stale). I am filing this as a consolidation and extension of #40347 with corrected technical framing (Claude Code plugin development against Desktop extensions), named primary sourcing for the Cowork Linux-VM architecture, and current market data. Happy to merge into #40347 if maintainers prefer; please route rather than close if a different venue is correct.
On scope: this issue concerns Claude Code in two concrete ways. (1) Claude Code plugins are developed and tested against Claude Desktop extensions, which has no Linux build, so plugin work currently requires switching OS. (2) Cowork invokes the Claude Code binary inside a Linux VM on macOS, so the Linux execution path already exists inside the Claude Code product and is the practical thing missing as a published target.
What this issue is asking for A public Anthropic position on Linux desktop support, and ideally a first-party build. A reasoned "not on the current roadmap, and here is why" would resolve most of what this issue is about. There is, to my knowledge, no public statement on Linux desktop support; the absence is itself part of the problem.