Antigravity 2.0 took away my productivity — and the Linux button is broken too

Google Antigravity
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I’ve been using Antigravity since before 2.0 and I need to talk about what happened to this product.

If you ran multiple agents in parallel, reviewed code inside the same window, and felt genuinely fast — you know what I mean. That workflow is gone.

The regression nobody is talking about

Before 2.0, Hub and IDE were integrated. Agent management, code review, parallel execution across projects — one window, one history, one flow. It was genuinely powerful.

Now they’re two separate apps with completely separate conversation histories. Nothing carries over. You finish something in the IDE, switch to the Hub, and it’s like starting from scratch. The context is gone.

I’m not saying the new architecture is wrong. I’m saying the user experience took a serious hit and I don’t see anyone at Google acknowledging it. If anything, 2.0 was marketed as an upgrade. For my workflow, it’s a downgrade.

Am I the only one who felt this? I’d genuinely like to know if others found ways to recover their old productivity or if everyone just silently adapted.

:bug: And for Linux users: the IDE button is completely broken

On top of the usability issues, the “Open in IDE” button introduced in 2.0.6 simply does not render on Linux — even after a clean installation following every path the Hub’s own source code expects.

Environment:

  • OS: Ubuntu 26 (x64)

  • Antigravity Hub: 2.0.10

  • Antigravity IDE: 2.0.3 (VSCode OSS 1.107.0, commit 4e2e10a9)

  • Installation: manual tarball to ~/.local/share/antigravity-hub/ and ~/.local/share/antigravity-ide/

What I dug into:

  • ~/.local/share/antigravity-ide/ exists with the correct binary

  • await window.ide.isInstalled() in the Hub DevTools console returns true

  • The ide:is-installed IPC handler resolves correctly on the Electron side

  • The button container div in the workspace header exists in the DOM but is empty — the React component initializes with isIdeInstalled = false and never re-renders after the IPC resolves

This looks like a race condition that only surfaces on Linux. macOS and Windows users may never see it.

Side note: There is no official .deb, Snap, or Flatpak package for Ubuntu. Installation requires downloading a raw tarball with zero documentation. For a product at this level, that’s simply not good enough.

I’m happy to share full DevTools captures or logs. But more than a fix, I’d love to hear from the team: is Linux a first-class platform for Antigravity, or an afterthought?

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From my part I disliked a lot that it came with a full IDE (I remember sending a suggestion asking if it was possible to uncouple the Agent Manager window into another application), but is true, the approach is awful. All applications should use the same internal state and harness instance, like a service. IIRC Rider uses this approach for their dotnet “LSP” (AKA Resharper).

Now thinking about it, if it were a service they could be able to offer a way for users to interface with Antigravity from the internet from any device.

Another thing that I still don’t understand is that if Antigravity is so powerful to create applications, why is the application that runs it so poor feature wise.

Another thought: Why is it even using Electron+React, make it a native application, you have the tools and resources (isn’t awful if is just for the frontend though).