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Newelle is an AI assistant for the GNOME desktop.
It's capable of standard chats and even running commands.
However, Newelle does require Flatseal to run commands on Linux.
There's a new AI assistant available for the GNOME desktop, and it just reached version 1.0 status. That new AI assistant is called Newelle, and it's already proven to be a worthy contender for your desktop.
Newelle isn't just another large language model manager, but a full-blown assistant that can run Linux commands from human-readable descriptions (more on that in a bit), serve as a traditional AI chatbot, and more. Newelle uses Bai Chat as its backend and allows you to download and select from different LLMs (some of which will require an API key).
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Newelle features chat history, chat editing, profiles, a mini app, extensions, keyboard shortcuts, chat save, recording, and more.
This app can easily serve as a missing link to add something similar to what Gemini is to Android (although it does take a bit more work to get it there).
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