We have Linux support on the roadmap in https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt.

OpenAdapt has similar functionality, except:

- it's open source

- it only records when you explicitly tell it to

- it has multiple PII/PHI scrubbing providers built in (see https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt?tab=readme-ov-file#...)

- the purpose for recording is to automate tasks in desktop apps

- it's cross platform (Mac and Windows now, Linux coming soon)

Full disclosure: I'm the primary author. Contributions and feedback welcome!

Software that works offline, respects your privacy, and runs on nearly all hardware back to the 90s?

I don't know of anything yet on desktop, but I have my own Nextcloud server that is advancing its local AI models quickly. You can run Nextcloud on just about anything, but to take advantage of the full AI capabilities, you need HW capable.

Ollama, llama.cpp, whisper, assorted frontends over those backends, and an actual history of respecting user choice and privacy.

(I do grant, we might need to get NPU drivers in good shape; not sure what the state of that is right now.)