Newelle, a ‘Virtual Assistant’ for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0

For most Ubuntu users, interacting with an AI chatbot means opening your web browser or (increasingly, your IDE). Newelle, a GTK4/libadwaita app, offers a different approach — and it just hit version 1.0. Newelle bills itself as a “virtual assistant” for GNOME, but it’s not quite as autonomous or anticipatory as that sounds. You can’t yell “Hey, Newelle” and give it tasks. It’s simply a GUI frontend to LLMs, be it a range of synapse-stifling, water-guzzling broligarch LLMs, like Gemini, ChatGPT, Groq (not to be confused with Grok), etc, or local models you run on your own device in an […]

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