Yesterday I stumbled upon the same concept for Claude Desktop and Linux [0]. I wonder why the companies themselves don't want to ship their Electron apps for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Spotify has a sensible approach: they ship the builds, although unsupported for Linux. Not ideal, but that's something. [1]
That's great!
Yesterday I stumbled upon the same concept for Claude Desktop and Linux [0]. I wonder why the companies themselves don't want to ship their Electron apps for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Spotify has a sensible approach: 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/
I took the macOS .dmg, extracted the web app inside it, Did some patches for Windows and rebuilt it inside a fresh Electron shell.
Then compiled it for Windows.
Most “desktop apps” are just: Electron + web code.
If you can access the bundle, you can retarget platforms.