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title: "Radicle Desktop 🖥️"
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Today, we're excited to officially introduce Radicle Desktop - a simple, intuitive desktop app that makes contributing to the Radicle network easier than ever.
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Since Radicle reached version 1.0 in September last year, we’ve been focused on improving the overall user experience. We believe the Radicle network becomes more valuable the more people participate - and Radicle Desktop is a step toward making that participation more accessible, without making any compromises.
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## Try it out! 🪄
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Head over to [radicle.xyz/desktop][desktop] to find the install instructions including packaged versions for major distributions.
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## What is Radicle Desktop?
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Radicle Desktop is a graphical interface built to simplify some of the more complex parts of the Radicle experience, such as issue management and patch reviews. It offers a familiar experience to other forges, giving you an overview of all the repositories on your node, and allowing you to manage issues and collaborate on patches seamlessly.
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## What Radicle Desktop (currently) is not
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Radicle Desktop is not trying to replace your terminal, IDE, or code editor - you already have your preferred tools for code browsing. It won’t replace our existing [app.radicle.xyz](https://app.radicle.xyz) and [search.radicle.xyz](https://search.radicle.xyz) for finding and exploring projects. It also doesn’t run a node for you. Instead, it communicates with your existing Radicle node, supporting your current workflow and encourages gradual adoption.
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## Why we’re excited 🎊
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Radicle Desktop marks the latest addition to the growing Radicle ecosystem. A lot of work has gone into this release, and we’re happily using Radicle Desktop ourselves for some time now. We also want to extend a big thank you to everyone who tried the earlier versions - the feedback has been immensely valuable. Even some of the CLI fans admit that certain workflows are better in the app.
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**Follow us** on 🐘 [Mastodon] or 🦋 [Bluesky].
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**Contribute** to Radicle as a 🌱 [seeder](/guides/seeder), 🧙
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[developer][heartwood] or by 🪞 [mirroring][mirror] your repositories on
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the Radicle network.
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**Join** our community on 💬 [Zulip] and discuss your ideas to
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improve Radicle.
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[heartwood]: https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/seed.radicle.xyz/rad:z3gqcJUoA1n9HaHKufZs5FCSGazv5
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[Mastodon]: https://toot.radicle.xyz/@radicle
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[Bluesky]: https://bsky.app/profile/radicle.xyz
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[Zulip]: https://radicle.zulipchat.com
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[mirror]: /guides/user/#git-going-with-repositories
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[desktop]: https://radicle.xyz/desktop
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