My partner doesn’t do much on the computer except web browsing and writing. The Scrivener writing program had a Linux version at some point that was abandoned.

I wanted to see if anyone personally has used Scrivener with Wine and if it is fussy or not. How has your experience been?

I could set it up for them, but they’re not a tech person and will probably reject Linux if it breaks all the time and they have to get me to come fix it.


Extra irrelevant info: trying to decide on having them try Mint or Ubuntu. Fedora is my daily driver and I typically use a headless Debian install for servers, but I heard Mint and Ubuntu are pretty perfect and low fuss for Windows users.

  • Zatujit@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    You do realize non tech people have absolutely no idea about package formats and such?? If you don’t understand something you should probably not worry about it

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      1 year ago

      That’s exactly my point. They shouldn’t have to worry about it and if you pick a distro without snaps, they don’t have to.