Claude Desktop (Linux beta): support Fedora/RHEL and atomic/immutable distros (e.g. Bazzite, Silverblue, Kinoite)

Summary

The Claude Desktop on Linux beta currently only supports Debian/Ubuntu via an apt repository or a downloaded .deb. The docs explicitly note:

Fedora and RHEL: only Debian-based distributions are supported today.

Please add official support for Fedora/RHEL-family distros, including atomic/immutable variants (Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite, Bazzite, etc.) that use rpm-ostree instead of dnf/apt.

Why this matters

A growing number of desktop Linux users are on Fedora Atomic spins (Bazzite, Silverblue, Kinoite, uCore, Aurora) or RHEL-family systems, none of which can use the documented apt-based install path at all (no apt/dpkg present).

What I tried as a workaround

On Bazzite 44 (Kinoite, rpm-ostree-based):

1. Downloaded the published .deb per the "Install from a downloaded file" instructions.
2. Converted it with alien --to-rpm --scripts -k inside an isolated Fedora toolbox container (to avoid touching the host).
3. Layered the resulting .rpm onto the host with rpm-ostree install.

The conversion succeeded and dependency resolution against Fedora repos passed cleanly (standard shared libs: gtk3, nss, alsa, cairo, pango, etc. — no Debian-specific deps left over), so a native .rpm build should be very feasible. This is only a personal workaround though — it's not a substitute for an official, tested package.

Ask

• A native .rpm (and/or Flatpak, which would also solve atomic-distro distribution cleanly) published alongside the .deb.
• If a .rpm isn't planned soon, even documenting a supported/blessed workaround (e.g. toolbox/distrobox-based install) would help users on Fedora Atomic systems in the meantime.

Happy to help test on Bazzite if useful.