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.

  • @Intralexical
    10•1 year ago

    Usually rated “Gold” or “Platinum” on AppDB:

    https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=12274

    Platinum: “Applications which install and run flawlessly on an out-of-the-box Wine installation”
    Gold: “Applications that work flawlessly with some special configuration”

    Click on a version. Apparently it works perfectly, but you need to winetricks corefont, vcrun6, speechsdk, and sapi for the initial install.