Claude for Desktop

by meetpateltech • 2 years ago

330 198 2 years ago

can someone tell me what the difference is to the webclient? Seems like a webview to me. No local caching/store.

Kids these days insist that they need the "app" of something, even when it's literally the exact same thing as the webpage.

Between this phenomenon and the refusal of many to close tabs in their browsers, I can't help but wonder if a huge percentage of the populace have never heard of or used Bookmarks on their web browsers before.

gigatree• 2 years ago

I think it’s less about not knowing what a bookmark is and more about just having a more direct way to access it, where it’s more high-level than just in a tab. There’s just something mentally different about opening a program from your dock as opposed to from a tab, even if they’re both basically a website.

jerpint• 2 years ago

Having a hotkey to access the app removes a lot of friction

xster• 2 years ago

I have ChatGPT app and Claude and Gemini PWAs on my dock. I gravitate towards using ChatGPT much more. It's just faster vs launching Chromium for each small query.

HelloMcFly• 2 years ago

I like to ALT-TAB instead of CTRL-TAB because I always have fewer applications open than I do sites. I don't have dozens and dozens of tabs always open either, but always more than my programs.

lancesells• 2 years ago

I'm not a kid and I know about bookmarks, but I prefer using apps to apps in my browser. Electron apps I have less interest in, but I really don't like working in something like Figma (which is in the top of it's class) in the browser.

In-browser apps do all sorts of clunky things like going back a page because I'm trying to scroll right or left or hotkeys not working. Native apps feel so much better to use and I can close my browser and stay focused on the task.

exe34• 2 years ago

the refusal of many to close tabs in their browsers

I have too many bookmarks, I'd never find anything in there. Keeping it open is the only way.

zarmin2• 2 years ago

Dinosaurs these days insist that there's only one way to do things, even when most apps are literally designed to accommodate different workflows.

result2vino3• 2 years ago

You aren’t as wise and smart as you think you are. Perhaps people just have different preferences to you?

gdhkgdhkvff• 2 years ago

I swear if all the ai chat apps started as fat apps and then Claude just released the first port to the web, I would be reading this exact same comment on hacker news except complaining that there was nothing wrong with the fat app.

metalliqaz• 2 years ago

but this can start with Windows and sit in your system tray, sending you popup reminders!

szundi• 2 years ago

Pssst, they are probably here reading

pjmlp8• 2 years ago

You can do exactly the same with a PWA without Electron garbage.

pc86• 2 years ago

We're 2-3 sprints away from a claude popup saying "It looks like you're writing a resume, would you like help with that?"

wifipunk• 2 years ago

From what I can tell you're right, it's essentially a web front end made to compete with ChatGPT's desktop app.

The only real benefit is the hotkey (ctrl + alt + space) for starting a new prompt when the window is closed, but still running in the background.

ksd482• 2 years ago

chatgpt has that shortcut too.

option + space for mac, and alt + space for windows.

whywhywhywhy• 2 years ago

There isn't one, it's just an Electron app that opens slower than the webpage and flashes white before it appears.

You'd think, a company that has such powerful AI and no restrictions on requests to it would be able to bash out truly native apps no rather than something that looks quite shoddily made, like making your electron app not flash white when in dark mode is amateur level stuff.

pjmlp8• 2 years ago

An Electron app is anything but fast.

yesco• 2 years ago

It can be faster than a normal web page depending on how they configure it though.

pjmlp8• 2 years ago

Indeed not everyone is able to write Web sites with good performance across multiple browsers, that is 3l1t3 skill, better ship Chrome alongside the application.

yboris2• 2 years ago

What a simplistic (and I think erroneous) view of Electron!

You can't spare 40mb of RAM?

hulitupulii• 2 years ago

Probably a mac user. Those devices are low in ram.

pjmlp8• 2 years ago

I already have a browser installed.

Apparently the developers couldn't get rid of turning the Web into ChromeOS.

skydhash2• 2 years ago

It's more like 400MB due to how they're packaged. And when you could have it run with 10x to 20x less RAM, it just scream "we don't care about you". Not everyone have 64GB RAM and 22 cores of CPU in their laptop.

It's like using a semi-truck (with the trailer attached) to go buy groceries 100 meters away.

TeMPOraL2• 2 years ago

More like 400MB, and the problem isn't that I can't spare it. The problem is that I can only spare 400 MB a few times at most before it starts becoming an issue.

I have stuff to do on my computer, stuff that often involves multiple programs (one of them almost always being a browser!). Then there's bunch of support stuff that I want, or have to, keep around. A music player, an IM, a mail client, etc. When everything gets packaged as Electron apps, even those tiny utilities add up quickly, and everything slows. down. Or worse, gets starved for RAM and starts stuttering (Windows) or just gets OOM-killed (Linux).

And I say that as a dev/techie, who has plenty of RAM. Non-tech people tend to have computers that are memory-starved by default. Building trivial stuff as Electron apps, where native would be 100x less resource-intensive, is just peak developer laziness/selfishness.

sv123• 2 years ago

Perhaps a gateway to run computer use locally?

https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use

numbers• 2 years ago

yeah, that's what it seems like. As of today, there's no additional features I notice compared to having a Safari-based desktop version of this (which I uninstalled to install this one).

YetAnotherNick• 2 years ago

I don't think they could release computer use for $20/month plan. It seems super expensive and you could easily involve Claude for hours of work for manual tasks like data entry or data cleaning.

gregorymichael• 2 years ago

My experiments with computer use clocked in at $15/hour

snug• 2 years ago

I was hoping that's what this was, sadly it's not, but defn opening the door for it in the future

blixt• 2 years ago

They add the same Option+Space (on macOS) shortcut that ChatGPT has, but the app feels a bit like a quick build overall, as it's just a web container. Hopefully they'll add some nice features that wouldn't work in a browser such as asking about what's on your screen or a shortcut to be able to speak questions and get a voice response.

latentcall• 2 years ago

No Linux, I should have expected that. Web works fine, but damn no Linux.

politelemon• 2 years ago

It's disappointing that these companies are perfectly happy to use it for their own wealth creation strategy, but have no interest in giving back and furthering the ecosystem.

weberer• 2 years ago

There's an old saying: "Judge a tree by its fruits". Be sure to remember this the next time Anthropic starts talking a big game about "our values".

internet101010• 2 years ago

Other than ease of set up, why would anybody use this over LibreChat, which allows you to plug in api keys for all services?

result2vino3• 2 years ago

Other than ease of set up, why would any one use this over training their own large language model from scratch using magnets?

zarmin2• 2 years ago

LibreChat is still a webapp, not a native app (ie, the topic of this post).

vunderba5• 2 years ago

I like LibreChat a great deal, but its pretty heavy-weight (over a more bundled solution like Jan) in terms of spinning up a bunch of docker containers (meilisearch, mongo, vector db, etc.)

lambdaba3• 2 years ago

I only use the chatgpt desktop app for quick throwaway interactions.

For anything more involved, I want a tab and an URL. Perfect use case for a webapp, native is pointless for this, especially if it's just a webview.

stephencoyner2• 2 years ago

Native desktop apps give these companies access to more system-level functions which will be super useful for...

- Voice dictation / interactions

- Agents accessing other applications and controlling your desktop

- Agents performing background tasks like continuous monitoring, periodic data processing, or ongoing analysis

I would expect to see these kind of features start to take off next year

lambdaba3• 2 years ago

Oh I agree, but this is definitely not it, I don't understand why Anthropic released this, other than squatting the same keyboard shortcut the ChatGPT app uses, with no ability to change it :P.

ethbr1• 2 years ago

Also data mining! :)

moffkalast• 2 years ago

Hmm yes, I don't see any issues giving a corporate controlled model with the operational precision of a coin toss full access to my entire system. There is absolutely nothing that could ever go wrong.

Nah but seriously, can we start a counter of how many times a chatbot agent has deleted someone's system32 because it was trained on data of the average tech forum?

freedomben• 2 years ago

You're not wrong, but I'm willing to guess the biggest reason is: Analytics

runjake2• 2 years ago

For anything more involved, I want a tab and an URL.

Why, exactly?

triyambakam• 2 years ago

Probably for bookmarking or working iteratively over different sessions on the interaction and allowing more than one session at a time.

lousken• 2 years ago

Don't see linux, also no screenshots?

Nesco2• 2 years ago

On macOS, why have an electron app when you can add the webpage to the dock as a PWA?

Nesco2• 2 years ago

Here is the comparison:

Claude Electron app vs Claude Safari PWA

Pros:

* Can be opened with a customizable shortcut

* Takes less RAM (400 MiB < 600 MiB)

Cons:

* Needs to be downloaded

* Weight 150 MiB

* Slower to start

* Loose language localisation

* Loose Safari's capabilities:

  - Printing the content of the current page

  - Speech2Text

  - Accessibility

  - ...

__jonas• 2 years ago

The whole electron app uses less RAM than the page opened as a PWA? That’s surprising to me, how come? I somehow thought Safari was more memory efficient than Chromium

notatoad3• 2 years ago

as a chrome PWA it's 259MB for me, vs ~700MB for the electron app.

runako3• 2 years ago

I suppose I use the PWA differently than most people? I just leave it open all the time, so I don't care how long it takes to start or how much data it takes to download to boot.

miguelspizza2• 2 years ago

It’s such a poorly designed PWA. They really failed to take advantage of any of the browsers storage mechanisms. Like why not put conversation history in indexedDB?

tinyhouse• 2 years ago

The main questions: Can this be used with no limit on file "uploads"?

emmanueloga_• 2 years ago

I was surprised that simple things like sharing a chat in Claude doesn't seem to be there. I read somewhere that it was a feature that was disabled later.

becquerel• 2 years ago

It's annoying, I'd really love to export my chats. Any Anthropic PMs reading this, as a paying subscriber I command you to prioritise this feature, on pain of failed training runs

haizhung• 2 years ago

I’ve been trying to sign up for Claude for a couple of weeks now (I was even planning to pay), but alas, signups remain closed for now.

vunderba5• 2 years ago

Lots of people are correctly suggesting this could function just as equally well as a PWA, but I will point out that (all things being equal) there are some valid use-cases when strictly choosing between Electron vs PWA that a LOT OF PEOPLE seem to be oblivious of:

- Electron apps don’t rely on a web server to function, so as long as you archive the app’s installer, you can install it on future computers even if the original website goes down. This assumes that the PWA/Electron App in question doesn't need server features, for example Photopea, Obsidian, etc.

- A bit easier to block network traffic to/from a dedicated application from a privacy perspective. Still can be done on a PWA, but it's trickier to set up.

entropicdrifter9• 2 years ago

I mean, re: point 1, we're talking about an app that calls an API for every interaction already, so that doesn't seem super relevant. If Claude is down, you can't use it whether it's through a PWA or an Electron app.

vunderba5• 2 years ago

"Lots of people are correctly suggesting this could function just as equally well as a PWA, but I will point out that (all things being equal) there are SOME VALID USE-CASES"

YES - I am speaking GENERALLY. That's why I literally called that out in my comment that this particular use-case (Claude Desktop) could easily be done with a PWA.

lostmsu• 2 years ago

If you could access chats offline, that'd be useful.

But you should be able to do that with PWA.

pjmlp8• 2 years ago

Apparently running a daemon with the system browser has gone out of fashion, or a skill lost in modern times.

Not to mention the whole calling into a server anyway.

vunderba5• 2 years ago

It would be nice to see a de-coupling of the backend (as a service, deamon, etc.) so that we could choose the desired frontend of our choice (net win from a UI/UX, accessibility perspective, etc.), but it's been a long time since I've encountered a consumer level application that did this.

Alifatisk• 2 years ago

I hope this will be available from Homebrew soon.

drpossum• 2 years ago

I would consider using this if I could just shove my API key in and have it run.

bihan• 2 years ago

i've lost my faith to claude because of gpt4o and the advanced voice features.

404mm2• 2 years ago

It’s a rat race. They keep pacing each other, and it feels like each of them takes over the other one for a few months.

joshdavham• 2 years ago

Somewhat unrelated question for developers: when is an app generally better suited for the desktop vs a web app? Asking for myself.

notatoad3• 2 years ago

if your "desktop app" gives me a cookie consent banner, i'm going to assume it's a pretty lazy effort to have a desktop app.

i can click the "install page as app" button in chrome myself, thanks.

pants22• 2 years ago

On the flip side, the ChatGPT desktop app is native on Mac and it's buggy and feature-incomplete compared to the web version.

dzhiurgis2• 2 years ago

100% - amazing this crap get released when "Add to Dock" is far better - zoom, copy/paste, search, font size - all works just like in normal browser.

Amazingly both implementations burn 100% CPU when rendering text, which is just bonkers.

Claude's web app crashes after few days and uses 30% on idle.

timrichard• 2 years ago

And doesn't work on Intel Macs. :-/

caseyy• 2 years ago

What are some of the bugs? I’ve not noticed any. The feature lag is real, still no canvas.

tempaccount420• 2 years ago

A desktop app that renders a website can still be useful if it exposes native APIs to the website.

notatoad3• 2 years ago

does this do that?

bergheim• 2 years ago

Uuuh.. so take all my data, as long as it's native?

adamhartenz• 2 years ago

Desktop apps can store what they like. There is no EU law preventing desktop apps from storing anything, unlike websites.

frogperson• 2 years ago

Claude requires a phone nu.ber to sign up and the won't accept a Google number so they are completely un-usable.

I would love to try their services, but they refuse to take my money.

SiVal• 2 years ago

Is this for the paid version? I'm using the free version, and it hasn't asked me for a phone number, but if the paid version requires a phone number, my reaction would be the same as yours: sorry, no.

NewJazz3• 2 years ago

I was unable to use the free version without a phone number.

zippergz2• 2 years ago

This caused me a problem because I signed up with my personal email address, and then wanted a separate account for work but I only have one phone number and they won't let me use the same one on two accounts. I don't really care about giving them my phone number (it's out there everywhere anyway) but this has really reduced my ability to use their product.

NewJazz3• 2 years ago

Same. my work even provides a SIP number, but Claude won't do voicemail codes... So no help there either.

illiac786• 2 years ago

In the age of eSIM, just order a free eSIM with zero credit, never charge it, never have any cost, and only enable it on your phone when a service like Anthropocene wants to send you some (completely unsecured) SMS code.

stpedgwdgfhgdd• 2 years ago

I do not want to give my phone number to a company.

404mm2• 2 years ago

Phone number is the new cookie. Just about every company now requires users to provide phone number. It’s insane.

sub7• 2 years ago

This LLM hype is out of control, they literally bullshit on any novel input (admittedly there's not a lot of this) and are wrong 15-20% of the time for all inputs

This isn't a "we'll just add more context", "we'll just add more instructions and params", "our multi-head transformers will auto-attention the tits off your query" etc - this is search based on probability maps. It is structurally unable to be intelligent, no matter how many models you chain together and how much compute you throw at it. But it can sure mimic that shit, which is why LPs are going to lose their shirts and GPs are going to struggle to raise follow on funds.

Let's move on.

yawnxyz2• 2 years ago

I'm still waiting for the ability to change my email address :/

thomassmith65• 2 years ago

I'm still waiting for the ability to change my email address...

...and also to log on without visiting an AlphaGoogle domain.

It speaks poorly of Anthropic that their 1FA login requires a third party.

Then again, Google isn't exactly a 3PP in relation to Anthropic, more of a 2½PP.

zaptheimpaler• 2 years ago

Tangentially, what are people using to have a unified interface to query multiple LLMs? Juggling multiple apps or websites for each provider gets annoying. I was using openrouter but the chat history is only stored in browser, so I'm looking for something else now. I tried open-webui[1] and that looks pretty good but I wonder if there are better alternatives.

[1] https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

iansinnott• 2 years ago

There are a ton of alternatives if you search around. I created my own because I wanted something keyboard centric, and use OpenRouter with it: https://github.com/iansinnott/prompta. They all accomplish roughly the same thing though.

submeta• 2 years ago

Try MultiGPT which is a Chrome extension that consolidates several AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Bard, Claude, and more, into a single interfacee

lurking_swe• 2 years ago

this is the best app i’ve found so far, better than anything else. Unfortunately it’s not open source and is only free for personal use.

It has web search and RAG that actually works properly out of the box. No fiddling with 100 settings.

https://msty.app/

punkspider• 2 years ago

I agree, I'm also firmly convinced it's the best. Until a month ago it has some bugs I disagreed with some design choices, but since 1-2 weeks ago it's the absolute best I've ever used and have easily convinced others to use it.

iamjackg• 2 years ago

I'm a very, very happy user of TypingMind. It's not free, but it's worth the (one-time) license cost in my opinion. It has support for multiple providers, plugins, "agents" (pre-set templates), chat grouping, import/export, automatic syncing across devices, etc.

https://github.com/TypingMind/typingmind https://www.typingmind.com/

topaz0• 2 years ago

This is so wasteful it boggles the mind.

xyc3• 2 years ago

Give https://recurse.chat/ a try - I'm the developer. One particular advantage over alternative apps is importing ChatGPT history and speed of the app, including full-text search. You can import your thousands of conversations and every chat loads instantly.

We also recently added floating chat feature. Check out the demo: https://x.com/recursechat/status/1846309980091330815

xyc3• 2 years ago

Regarding chat history, I've been thinking that people should have ownership over chat history. We are migrating the chats towards SQLite, so your data is going to be a timeless format like files* - SQLite has long term support through year 2050. https://www.sqlite.org/lts.html

* See [File over app](https://stephango.com/file-over-app).

Arcuru• 2 years ago

I use Chaz to just talk to any LLM from Matrix, my normal chat client.

https://github.com/arcuru/chaz

Yeroc2• 2 years ago

For those that use LLMs in a similar manner to a search engine the Anthropic team (unlike Meta AI and Google Gemini) have made it easy to use Claude from right within your browser. In Firefox add a bookmark with the following values:

- Name: Claude AI

- URL: https://claude.ai/new?q=%s

- Keyword: ai (or whatever you'd like to use as a shortcut)

Now from the URL bar you can type: ai <my question>

For ChatGPT use https://chatgpt.com/?q=%s as the URL and for Microsoft Copilot use https://www.bing.com/search?showconv=1&sendquery=1&q=%s.

reustle• 2 years ago

This doesn't seem to work for me. I'm getting "%s" as the initial prompt, even though the text is properly displaying in the URL. Almost seems like an issue on the Claude side.

outside415• 2 years ago

worked fine for me on google chrome by setting it up as a search engine/site search.

frankacter• 2 years ago

This is not unique to FireFox. This is also possible in Chrome (Settings -> Search Engine) and looks like this:

https://imgur.com/a/qxap6iI

Setup the way I have in the image you can simply type @claude and your search

Worth noting that Gemini also offers a URL shortcut for searching Gemini via @gemini within the Chrome browser.

Yeroc2• 2 years ago

Yes, I'm aware of @gemini on Chrome. If you look at how it's implemented they are purposely stashing the query into a HTTP header so it's not possible to use a simple bookmark to launch it.

wood-porch• 2 years ago

Are you on Linux by chance? Your font doesn’t look like it has anti aliasing which seems like a common Linux thing

user3939382• 2 years ago

Entries like these should be submitted to the MyCroft search database.

mFixman• 2 years ago

Also, if you prefer using AI assistants as desktop apps that feel separate to the browser and you can open directly, you can download Progressive Web Apps for Firefox [1] and create a separate shortcut for a sandboxed profile of Firefox with less visual clutter that open the assistant directly.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/pwas-for-fire...

leosanchez• 2 years ago

BTW you can use s[1]

you can combine it with your shell to call claude, chatgpt

sc expands to s --provider claude sgpt expands to s --provider chatgpt

[1] https://github.com/zquestz/s

spyder• 2 years ago

Also in Firefox Dev Edition settings (in the Firefox Labs section) you can turn on their AI chatbot feature which gives you the option to send the selected text to Claude or other chatbots and opens their response in a sidebar.

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/06/24/experimenting-wi...

absoluteunit1• 2 years ago

This is exactly how Vimium`s custom search works

grantcarthew7• 2 years ago

I'm using AnythingLLM for this now. https://anythingllm.com/

MIT License on GitHub

This week it got the X.ai API added which is what I'm using. Grok is not as good as Claude or ChatGPT yet, but don't bet against Elon.

https://x.com/ServeTheHome/status/1850917031421399543

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830650370336473253

It's the desktop solution I've been looking for. If you have a heap of prompts, you can create a Workspace for each. Super easy.

Here's my prompts if anyone is interested:

https://github.com/grantcarthew/notes/tree/main/Prompts

I only have two minor complaints with AnythingLLM: 1. No light mode (why does everyone want dark mode, it sucks for anyone older than 30) 2. It's electron

Edit: replaced cluster link with source (I think)

ekabod• 2 years ago

The subject of the thread is "Claude for Desktop".

behnamoh• 2 years ago

but it doesn't say "only Claude for desktop", which makes GP's comment relevant.

grantcarthew7• 2 years ago

AnythingLLM supports Claude out of the box.

LeoPanthera• 2 years ago

Is there something like AnythingLLM that is a Mac native application?

Terretta• 2 years ago

https://msty.app/

(Note: it has first class support for Obsidian.md vaults.)

dr_kiszonka2• 2 years ago

Does it allow you to create custom agents like OpenAIs GPTs? I can't find it in the documentation.

grantcarthew7• 2 years ago

That's what the "Workspaces" are. Create a workspace, go into the settings then "Chat Settings" and configure the Prompt. There are more configurations available.

xyc3• 2 years ago

Shameless plug: If you are on a Mac, check out RecurseChat: https://recurse.chat/

A few outstanding features:

- Fast: Import ChatGPT history, loads thousands of conversations at once.

- Floating Chat: spotlight / ChatGPT desktop app like floating window.

- Customization: You can add any OpenAI compatible API (including X.ai) as a model, and just edit the url/model id

- Chat with files: Not as complete as complete as a RAG solution for now, but we feature simplicity. Basically you can drag and drop PDF files onto a session or add files/folders to a model (like custom GPT) to start chatting.

- And, yes we support light mode! And several light mode code themes as well

avazhi2• 2 years ago

I’m nearly 40 and I can’t use light mode anymore.

Judging from how many older coders use it I think it’s just you, mate.

grantcarthew7• 2 years ago

No, it's related to Astigmatism. The eye lens gets distorted. Bright light shrinks the pupil, meaning the light goes through less of your lens and hence is not as distorted.

dotancohen• 2 years ago

These prompts are terrific, thank you!

grantcarthew7• 2 years ago

Some haven't been updated for a while. Try the "software-evaluation.md" prompt, it's one of my best. I use it often. Use the bin/gp script to get them into your clipboard.

throwaway743• 2 years ago

You have to be psychotic to not use dark mode and prefer light.

dzamo_norton• 2 years ago

You've gotta be nuts not to be psychotic in a world like this one.

smokeydoe• 2 years ago

I have an astigmatism and I prefer light mode because of it. Dark mode causes the letters to jump more and the optometrist agreed light mode is better for people with astigmatism and its a common issue.

downrightmike• 2 years ago

No demo?

ngram• 2 years ago

Thanks guys for the linux release !!!

bumbledraven2• 2 years ago

I wish I knew of a good way to voice chat with Claude, and unfortunately, the new mobile app isn’t it. The voice recognition is terrible. Does it just use iOS’s built-in text-to-speech? It needs to be as good as Whisper to be useful.

SlyShy• 2 years ago

I use superwhisper for this.

bumbledraven2• 2 years ago

+1, that fixes the voice recognition part, but it doesn't automatically read Claude's response aloud.

steveoscaro2• 2 years ago

Is there an actual good use case for these desktop apps vs the web?

hombre_fatal• 2 years ago

(I hope this thread doesn't go anywhere. I just feel like complaining.)

There's been some inflection point where the desktop version is now often worse than the web app. And you can't blame web tech because the web app in the browser is usually quite good.

WhatsApp on macOS has catastrophic bugs for years. I regularly can't focus the input field and have to relaunch it. Until recently, its image modal would regularly bug out and leave behind a global dimmed window that eats all input so you can't even close it.

Poe's desktop app is less polished than poe.com. Off the top of my head, its desktop app scrollbar becomes so tiny that you can't even click and drag it.

ChatGPT's desktop app is simply worse than its web app or was when I stopped using it months ago for that reason.

Youtube Music is another pointless desktop app since it's just the web app inside a web view, though at least it embraces that.

It's like the only thing going for these desktop apps is that you can alt-tab to them individually. It's time to come up with a trivial one-click first-class OS-level way to turn websites into apps and put all these sad desktop apps out of their misery.

Oh well, it's come at a good time because I've mostly soured to the idea of having to install software at all. 90% can be run in a sandboxed browser away from my file system.

steveoscaro2• 2 years ago

Yeah agreed on all of this. Most desktop apps that come after their web-based versions feel like an afterthought.

WhereIsTheTruth• 2 years ago

Electron slop, a literal insult to the people who worked hard on what powers all of that bloated crap

rubymamis• 2 years ago

Yet another Electron app... In comparison, ChatGPT's awesome client is native.

Jemm• 2 years ago

Any site that hijacks the back button has lost my trust.

nextcaller• 2 years ago

I'll keep using mine https://github.com/Merkoba/Meltdown

abenga• 2 years ago

Software engineering tools without Linux versions are baffling to me.