... Today begins the era of AI Waifu PCs 🐱

The first beta of Nyarch Assistant has been released for every Linux Distro and we need your help to improve it!
Nyarch Assistant is a modular and powerful open source AI (Arch Intelligence) Waifu assistant for your Linux System.

🥰 Cute waifu speaking
☺️ Tsundere personality
🗂 File and System management
⌨️ Code execution
😎 User choice: choose your favorite AI model, Voice or Speech Recognition

⬇️ Download & Release notes

🎊The second beta of Nyarch Assistant is now available.

🔄 Updated the SDK to Gnome 47
📁 Local Models overhaul
🙅‍♂️ Fixed issues with local models not downloading
🥁 Added the possibility to enable message streaming with local models
📁 Added the possibility to load a local model from a custom gguf file
💬 Improved history for local models
🦙 Added support for Ollama instance
🎨 Fixed issues with markdown formatting
🔇 Actions like \*smiles\* won't be spoken by the tts

Link: https://github.com/NyarchLinux/NyarchAssistant/releases/tag/0.3.1-beta2

🤩 A release candidate for Nyarch Assistant is now here!
Updates from the last one:
🐱 Completed refactor to Nyarch Assistant
- Most of the initial presentation is complete
- Now settings should reset and be different from Newelle
🌐 Added Nyarch Demo API that gives the user 10 requests to try out Nyarch Assistant
🤩 Live2D avatar preinstalled
🔉 TTS Improvements
- Fix tts not interrupting well
- Add Edge tts and set it as default for good quality
🎙 Add more Speech to text, add Whisper for local speech recognition
🧠 Added smart prompts (Based on the user input, they should provide the LLM relevant information specific for Nyarch). At the moment it supports
- Nvidia driver installation
- Ollama installation
- Docker installation
- Voicevox installation
🗣 Added more translators
⚙️ Change settings order
👨‍💻Add option to open commands in external terminal

https://github.com/NyarchLinux/NyarchAssistant/releases/tag/0.3.6

Want to ask a quick question about the Arch Wiki or generate an image? Acchan got you covered! 👏

🧩 Nyarch Assistant now supports a new API for extensions. With a little of python knowledge you can create anything you want!

🤩 See the available extensions: https://github.com/topics/newelle-extension

https://github.com/NyarchLinux/NyarchAssistant/releases/tag/0.4.2

😱 Are you so cooked that you can't explain it with words?

🦮 Nyarch Assistant now supports Vision.
You can now send images to Acchan! This feature is supported by Nyarch Demo API, Ollama, Groq, Gemini, OpenAI and OpenRouter.


https://github.com/NyarchLinux/NyarchAssistant/releases/tag/0.4.4

🐱Nyarch Linux 24.11 Amadeus🐱

😡 The most important release in the history of Nyarch Linux has been dropped!

➕ Changelog:

😊 Arch-chan is now preinstalled!
- Support for many LLM Providers and Local Models
- Support for many TTS and Speech Recognition providers and local models, with translation option
- Support for Live2D and LivePNG Avatars
- Some Nyarch-specific instructions
- Execute commands on the fly
- Extensions support, to add new providers and extend llm ability
🆙 Nyarch Updater will now handhold you to update Nyarch Linux!
- Pacman & Flatpak updates
- Nyarch Linux customizations guided updates, you can choose what to apply and what to not
- Supports Nyarch Linux 24.04+, so you can update to 24.11 from those versions!
🎨 Material UwU Update!
- The extension has been rewritten
- Way more accurate color generation
- Performances have been greatly improved
- Fixed bugs with light theme and icon applying
🐱 Nyarch Logo will now be displayed in Gnome system information
👣 Update to Gnome 47
📦 AppImageLauncher has now been replaced with GearLever
🧑‍💻Big improvements to Nyarch ISO Building script
🎓 Updated Nyarch Applications

👥 This big release was possible tanks to:
- ravimo for Arch-chan art and character
- Adam for Nyarch Updater
- qwersyk for Newelle
- wawa for general dev

🌐 Follow Us!
🌐 https://NyarchLinux.moe
👥 @NyarchLinuxGroup
🎮 Discord Server
🌐 Other Socials

⬇️ You can download it from:
🐱 NyarchLinux website
🌐 @NyarchLinuxRepo
📦 SourceForge

🐱 Nyarch Linux now has a Wiki!

Unlike the comprehensive Arch Wiki, the Nyarch Linux Wiki focuses on providing simpler, easy-to-understand information on various topics. Additionally, it offers Nyarch-specific guidance and recommendations to help you enhance your experience with Nyarch Linux.

💻 For now only the installation guide is available, but we plan to write about various topics to level up your Nyarch Linux experience!

🌐 Nyarch Wiki

❓Wanna ask a quick question to Acchan?

🦮 The new Nyarch Assistant version now features automatic Speech to Text, keyboard shortcuts for recording and multiple optimizations

https://github.com/NyarchLinux/NyarchAssistant/releases/tag/0.5.0

🐱 Nyarch Linux 24.11.1 Amadeus 🐱

Novideo went back to Nyaovidea!

♻️ Updated packages
🎨 Fixes to Material UwU: fix some elements themed wrong and change accent color from the settings
🦮 Nyarch Assistant Update:
⚡️ Improved performance
🎙 Comfortable Speech to Text
💼 Fix documentation
🚗 Automatic model for OpenAI providers
🎞 Nvidia ISOs are back!
🎮 Nvidia drivers preinstalled and configured
🔄 Quick hybrid GPU switch from quick settings
💤 Disabled suspension/screen off for the installer
💻 Bluetooth is now enabled by default


🌐 Follow Us!
🌐 https://NyarchLinux.moe
👥 @NyarchLinuxGroup
🎮 Discord Server
🌐 Other Socials

⬇️ You can download it from:
🐱 NyarchLinux website
🌐 @NyarchLinuxRepo
📦 SourceForge

✏️ Did you say something that made Acchan upset?

You can now edit and delete messages on Nyarch Assistant! There are also multiple improvements to Ollama and some minor bug fixes!

https://github.com/NyarchLinux/NyarchAssistant/releases/tag/0.5.5

🎉 Happy new year everyone!

🐱 2024 has been an important year for Nyarch Linux!
⬇️ 5000+ ISO Downloads (+400%)
🌟 +136 Github Stars (+200%)
🌐 Our Discord server reaches 400 members
📈 A lot of big and small improvements have been made
📦 New game changing projects!
    🦮 Nyarch Assistant made us one of the first distro to integrate AI in their systems, and aims (with Newelle) to become one of the best linux-native apps for Linux
    🆙 Nyarch Updater solved our problems with system and configuration updates in a simple user friendly way
    📖 Nyarch Wiki aiming to be a simple and user firendly guide for Nyarch
🤝 Many new contributors are helping with Nyarch development
📣 Media are starting to talk about us! Article and videos about Nyarch are popping up!

🚨 But we have even bigger plans!
2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ will be the year of the Weeb desktop!

🦮 Nyarch Assistant Harem update

🙅 Added ability to create settings profiles and switch between them on the fly
📁 Add general file sending support for LLM
📺 Add ability to quickly record screen and send the video to the assistant (for now only works on Gnome and with Gemini)
💭 Add support for Claude, with vision and file support
🎞 Add support for Audio, Video and text file for Gemini
✒️ Add option to automatically generate chat name
🔃 Add option to invert chat list order
🐞 Some bug fixes
🎤Created an extension for voice cloning with a single audio: Newelle Voice Cloning

🌐 https://github.com/NyarchLinux/NyarchAssistant/releases/tag/0.6.0

📊 We are hosting a critical poll on our Discord Server!

Check out our future projects and let us know which ones you think we should focus on first.

😊 Hyprland and KDE Plasma spins, Acchan Desktop pets and much more!

➗Acchan can help you with your math homeworks now!

✒️ Added support for LaTex and thinking blocks for deepseek reasoning models!

https://github.com/NyarchLinux/NyarchAssistant/releases/tag/0.7.0

😊 Development of Nyarch Desktop Pet has started!

For now only Hyprland is supported, but soon we will support other DEs.
You can install it as an extension of Nyarch Assistant for the moment.

🌐 Presentation and installation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exlC3R4hj8w

🌐 Github:
https://github.com/NyarchLinux/DesktopPuppet

❗️❗️ Don't mess with Acchan, she will remember it!

🦮 The new version of Nyarch Assistant implements new amazing features!

💾 Long Term Memory
📄 Chat with local documents
🕺 Motion support for Live2D. You can also interact with models that support it.
🖥 Add an integrated terminal
⚙️ Changed settings design
🧩 Add the ability for extensions to see and edit history and use Handlers
💭 Add ability to remove thinking steps from history
ℹ️ Add a button to check the prompt that generated an assistant message
☑️ Add quick toggles

🎂 Happy birthday to Ravimo our favorite artist!
https://github.com/NyarchLinux/NyarchAssistant/releases/tag/0.8.0

🐱 Nyarch Linux 24.11.3 🐱

👣 Update to Gnome 48
- 🖼 Enhanced Image Viewer
- 📝 New fonts
- 👨‍⚕️ Digital Welbeing
- 🚤 Performance improvements
- 🌈 HDR Support
- 🎵 New audio player
🎨 Update Material You to Gnome 48

🌐 Follow Us!
🌐 https://NyarchLinux.moe
👥 @NyarchLinuxGroup
🎮 Discord Server
🌐 Other Socials

⬇️ This version is only available for download using Nyarch Updater