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.

  • @jennraeross
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    41 year ago

    You can still use the old Scrivener for free, it’s been floating around as an appimage: https://www.appimagehub.com/p/1262832/

    I’m afraid I only own the modern Scrivener through the App Store, so I wouldn’t be able to install it on my linux machine to test it #-;#