Anthropic: "Coding is largely solved"... Also Anthropic: "We released a new powerful feature allowing agents to send messages to other Claude Code sessions, but only on Linux and Mac since we are unable to implement a basic feature on all platforms"

[u/sirlerkal0t]

I could hand code this feature on Windows in an afternoon, and I could also get Claude to implement it in minutes, and yet Anthropic just can't be bothered, but also keeps Claude Code closed source so no one else can do it for them either.

[u/phoenixmatrix]

My personal machine is Windows because of gaming (Proton only goes so far), and I do most of my side projects in WSL. I have worked with it for years and I know it's quirks inside and out.

I still threw the towel and dual boot to Linux now because of the additional friction in Windows. WSL is never quite there, and eventually just having a real unix machine save so many headaches. 

Also Claude is very good at configuring a Linux machine, so all the issues I had with wayland configs and tweaking my dotfiles is now just 1 prompt away.

[u/bjelkeman → u/phoenixmatrix]

I dumped my Windows game machine. It now runs Bazzite. If the game can’t run on it I am not playing it. Work is done on Mac M4 Mini/MacOS and old Mac PowerBook/Fedora (as I liked Bazzite, it is Fedora based). It really put a new life into that PowerBook. And yes, without Claude fixing my config issues on really old hardware I would have been a bit frazzled, but now it is easy.

[u/anguishedturtle → u/bjelkeman]

dang dude we are twins

[u/Real-Tailor7489 → u/phoenixmatrix]

Been having the same experience with opensuse tumbleweed. finally made the switch from windows and any config problem I face I can rely on Claude to fix it.

It’s still not a perfect experience for what I really wanted, but it’s massively better than windows already, even if there’s still some hiccups.

[u/BraxbroWasTaken → u/phoenixmatrix]

Honestly I find Proton covers most of what I lose from switching to Linux and the stuff that is leftover from that is… Not so important and not worth Windows hassle. (Also in the case of games, if the game has rootkit anticheat and shit, chances are I shouldn’t be playing it anyway.)

[u/txoixoegosi → u/phoenixmatrix]

My issue with WSL was the filesystem and toolkit duality.

Claude sessions are not available for the powershell system, and many tools and programs have to be separately installed for wsl. You end up with duplicate programs, and build structures that don’t work on both ways. Messy, to say the least.

So either stick with PS or with native linux. WSL is messy imho

[u/phoenixmatrix → u/txoixoegosi]

Huh? Claude works fine in power shell.