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.

  • nottheengineer@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

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

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

    • alteropen@noc.social
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      1 year ago

      @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.

      • nottheengineer@feddit.de
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        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?