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Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
June 7, 2026
A GitHub feature request consolidating prior issues asks Anthropic to ship a first-party Claude Desktop build for Ubuntu LTS and Debian, noting that Anthropic already maintains signed apt/dnf/apk repositories and linux-x64/arm64 binaries for Claude Code. The core blocker is that Desktop Extensions — the surface Claude Code plugins are tested against — have no Linux target, forcing plugin developers to switch to macOS or Windows. The issue also points out that Cowork already runs a Claude Code binary inside a Linux VM on macOS, meaning the Linux execution path exists internally but isn't published.