I was forced to switch from Cursor to Windsurf by Codeium on Linux because Cursor doesn’t have a package and repository for automatic updates, and it doesn’t have any built-in capabilities for system integration. Even simple things like “open with Cursor” or desktop and taskbar icons in Cursor have …

Native .deb and RPM releases are now available! :tada: [image] Linux DEB and RPM Downloads Announcements Hey all, It’s taken us some time, but we now have both .deb and RPM releases of Cursor available for download and use, alongside our standard AppImage for…

That’s great! At minimum you’ll need to provide an apt repo and an rpm repo - those two should cover a large chunk of distros. I’m on openSUSE which is rpm-based like Fedora. https://openbuildservice.org/ is a great way to automate building of packages for all distros, although you would have to …

Fedora here as well. Definitely been dealing with annoying AppImage issues

Fedora, rpm repo would be appriciated, not a big fan of appimage

Any updates here? Had to switch from cursor as well and would like to come back. Ubuntu 24.10

Any updates on this? Fedora user here - using appimage is not ideal, an rpm repo would be greatly appreciated

Please improve Linux support

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sanjeed5 (Sanjeed) August 28, 2025, 6:17am 26

Native .deb and RPM releases are now available!

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