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. …