Image: vinopilot.ca · vinoPilot: Copilot+ PC features, for Linux. Not just a local LLM: speech, face, camera, voice and search models, all offline on your Intel NPU. Free, open source and easy on the battery. 10% of a charge to index 9,763 files, 3.3x faster captions than CPU, 0 W idle.
Windows Copilot+ style features brought to Linux on Intel NPUs
Claude Opus and Sonnet helped port Copilot+ style tools, such as live captions and face unlock, to Linux using the Intel NPU via OpenVINO.
Credits
- Reddit poster bigbepisinc Source ↗
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The full story
The maker noticed little Linux work used the NPU in Intel laptop CPUs, so they brought over the useful Windows Copilot+ features (not Recall) using Intel's OpenVINO and existing libraries. The tools run offline, and all the work was assisted by Claude Opus and Sonnet.
The first project, VinoWhisper, gives system-wide live captioning and voice typing on Wayland using Whisper on the NPU, which the maker says saves battery with no change in quality. Another, VinoAuthFace, provides face unlock. The post describes further projects not covered here.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I've ported over (almost) all the useful Windows "Copilot+" features to Linux. All of them run offliReddit poster: bigbepisincPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
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- The project: vinopilot.ca
The project site.