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…

Just thought I’ll join with my 2c. I have been trying to evaluate Cursor on Linux for the last couple of months, and it’s been a buzzkill, and have been going back to VSCode.. imho distributing this as an AppImage is hindering a lot of what I can do with it, and the decision seems like just tickin…

This is absolutely something which should be done by the Cursor team - it makes no sense for every Cursor user on Linux to have to reinvent this same wheel.

We are working on an apt repo What distro are you folks using?

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

Please improve Linux support

Ideas Feature Requests

useruser March 31, 2025, 9:57am 8

Linux Mint with Cinnamon DE

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