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
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • alteropen@noc.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      @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

      • nottheengineer@feddit.de
        1·
        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
          1·
          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
            2·
            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?