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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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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] 10 points 10 months ago (11 children)

On the distros: Go with mint. ubuntu has snaps which are the perfect way to scare new users away. They make everything super slow to launch and cause errors that make no sense if you don't know how snaps work.

And worst of all, if you type "sudo apt install firefox", hit enter and press Y, you won't get what you asked for. You'll get the snap version of firefox and the only way to know that is if you read and understand the output of apt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 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 10 months 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 10 months 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.

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