By Parsa Khazaeepoul, co-founder of Pane. Tested Linux support for every agent manager listed here on Ubuntu 22.04 and Fedora 40. .
Linux is better-served than Windows in the agent manager space, but the picture is still uneven. Several tools work via tmux, which requires you to manage a multiplexer yourself. Two tools — Conductor and cmux — have no Linux builds at all. Here is the honest breakdown.
Status as of June 2026. Sources are each tool's official README or download page.
| tool | linux | windows | macos | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pane | ✓ AppImage + deb | ✓ native | ✓ native | no deps, no tmux, no Homebrew |
| Conductor | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ Apple Silicon | Swift/AppKit, macOS-only |
| Superset.sh | ✗ untested | ✗ untested | ✓ tested | README: “Windows/Linux untested” |
| Claude Squad | ✓ via tmux | ✗ (WSL only) | ✓ via tmux | tmux required; TUI, not a desktop app |
| cmux | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | Ghostty-based, macOS-only |
| Emdash | ✓ AppImage/deb | ✓ MSI/EXE | ✓ DMG + brew | cross-platform |
| HumanLayer | ✓ | ✗ not listed | ✓ | waitlist only (Jun 2026) |
On Linux, the meaningful distinction is not “does it work” but “what does using it actually feel like.” Claude Squad works on Linux — but it runs inside tmux, which means you are managing a multiplexer, splitting panes manually, and reading agent output in a text interface without a diff viewer.
Pane ships as a proper desktop application on Linux: AppImage for any distribution, .deb for Debian/Ubuntu. You get the same visual interface as the macOS and Windows versions — worktree browser, inline diff viewer, session status at a glance — without touching tmux at all.
If you live in the terminal and prefer a TUI, Claude Squad is a reasonable choice. If you want a GUI that works the same on your Linux workstation as it does on your colleagues' Macs, Pane is the option.
Conductor and cmux are the two tools with a genuine Linux gap. Both are built on macOS-specific frameworks — Conductor uses Swift and AppKit, cmux is built on Ghostty (a macOS terminal). There are no Linux builds and no announced plans to ship them.
If you have seen Conductor recommended and want something that works the same way on Linux, Pane is the closest equivalent: desktop app, worktree-per-agent isolation, live diff viewer, and unlimited parallel agent sessions (bounded only by your API rate limits).