Newelle is a desktop AI assistant for Linux, providing a native GTK front-end to cloud and local LLMs. It features voice chat, long-term memory and extensions.

Newelle is a GTK graphical front end for interacting with LLMs from Gnome desktop. It supports both local LLMs and online ones.

In addition to basic chat, it supports:

  • Speech to text and TTS models
  • Can perform web searches
  • Can drag files into Newelle to discuss it’s contents
  • Run terminal commands
  • Manage files
  • Other features like image generation can be added through it’s plugin system.

Obviously you’ll want to be careful with letting it interact with your system directly through files/terminal commands, but still sounds pretty promising.

  • vermaterc@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Wow, I’ve just tried it and it’s really solid. Lightweight, feature rich (RAG, voice input, command virtualization, custom extensions), interface is just clean… I don’t think other platforms have an alternative that can compete with that for now, which is not an usual situation in terms of GUI software on Linux. Good job