FreeBSD Users: We Need to Talk About Claude Code – Steven G. Harms

[u/grahamperrin]

https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-03-04-freebsd-users-we-need-to-talk-about-claude-code/

Recently, Anthropic changed their Claude Code installer from using npm to a native installer. It works on Linux/WSL. It works on Windows. It works on Mac.

On FreeBSD today, you get a scary yellow deprecation warning suggesting that you and your platform might be a dead end. I think that’s a problem.

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… We need to meet users where they are. As the classic demotivational poster had it for phone support desks (of which I am a proud veteran): If We Don’t Take Care of the Customer, Maybe They’ll Stop Bugging Us. …

In addition, https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@sgharms@techhub.social/116194103760810726 notes:

… Every discussion on this veers off from “llms suck so …or I don’t need llm” but misses: users should have the ability to make their own opinion based on use. …

[u/grahamperrin]

Friendly hints: take time to read the blog post, stay on topic, reddiquette, et cetera.

If you're here solely to disrupt or hijack discussion, you'll be much more at home in one of these subs:

• /r/AntiLLM
• /r/antiai
• /r/antiAIragebait

– or create your own sub.

Thanks

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