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Trying to get my partner to switch from Windows to Linux. Has anyone tried Scrivener with Wine? (lemmy.catasaur.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well non tech literate people probably wont notice the start up time and they shouldn't be using the terminal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Normal users do care about whether their browser takes 1 or 5 seconds to start up. That's the difference between a new device and one from 3 years ago.

And for those that aren't comfortable with the terminal, snaps are an even bigger issue. All their apps will be slow and glitchy and they won't have any idea why.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I doubt it. Shooing the cat away take more time then that. Looking a the headlines on the tv takes longer. I can't picture any member of my family actually noticing.

As for snaps . shrug sure if any app is glitchy all they know is check for updates, hopefully they do.