If you're into AI and wish there was an AI-powered assistant for Linux, your wish has been granted with Newelle version 1.0. This new assistant can work with various LLMs (such as Ollama, Groq, Google Gemini, OpenAI, GPT4Free, Anthropic Claude, Mistral, OpenRouter, and Deepseek.

Newelle also supports extensions (for things like image generation), local document parsing, command virtualization, the ability to work with an external terminal app, and more. You'll also find voice support, long-term memory, web search, website reading, a built-in file manager, rich formatting, and chat editing. I will say that I did have trouble with the command execution when sudo was required and wouldn't exactly be comfortable giving the assistant access to heightened privileges.

Other than the one terminal caveat, Newelle is an outstanding native Linux app for interacting with either local or remote LLMs.

One thing to keep in mind is that certain features only work with specific LLMs, but, thanks to the profiles feature, you can easily set up different profiles with different LLMs to ensure you have the features you need associated with specific models.

Newelle is available for free and can be installed via Flatpak by downloading the .flatpakref file and running the install command flatpak install io.github.qwersyk.Newelle.flatpakref. Once installed, you'll find the launcher in your desktop menu.