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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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are definitely pushing it there too, but not as hard. There isn't a way to disable this shitty behaviour, you need to manually set apt up to not pull snaps for every package individually.

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

@nottheengineer well thanks for letting me know anyway, this probably explains a lot of the docker issues I have been encountering which are "snap only" problems, despite me installing through apt

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

Oh yeah, I learned about snap the hard way with docker as well.

I'd highly recommend using a different distro for that.

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

@nottheengineer what do you suggest? problem is I'm limited since my home server is a raspberry pi so I'm limited to distros that support arm

I should probably give Debian a try, but I never had a good experience with Debian desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd say debian is a good pick. I have debian LTS on my ventoy for whenever I need to partition a drive and it's been great.

I never had any issues with it, what drove you away from debian on the desktop?