![]() And Scrivener no longer runs natively on Linux. But the best solution for aspiring novelists is the carefully crafted Scrivener, developed by a small, quality-focused software team at Literature and Latte in the UK. It is possible to write with existing open source solutions. The problem, of course, is that commercial software remains dominant, and not all of it can run on Linux. This quality in itself attracts some socially conscious creative people to the platform. I believe that open source at its best serves as a role model for how the larger society should function. There aren’t many fiction writers who use Linux as a regular platform, I’d wager. So let’s focus on something small and potentially positive, only tangentially related to the larger world. Politics and the pandemic, bound tightly together in this dysfunctional country, will be with us through the end of this year and well beyond. It goes without saying that these are troubling times. You can resolve it by using winetricks to install speechsdk. Update, 1/30/21: there is a bug in the recent Scrivener 3 betas which prevents Scrivener from launching successfully after installation. Kudos to the Literature & Latte team for maintaining Wine compatibility. Click to enlarge.Īnd there you have it: Scrivener 3 for Windows, fully functional on Linux. Composition Mode, with controls and stats on hideaway bottom panel. ![]() It seems to function as it should, and it looks great, just as it does on the Mac. I didn’t find any misbehavior within the app itself on a quick initial tour. Just hit the Super Key and start to type in Scrivener-once the app icon appears (this is actually the Wine icon on my laptop, with a Scrivener caption beneath) select it and hit Enter to launch. You need to navigate to the install location (.wine/drive_c/’Program Files’/Scrivener3) and issue the wine command again to launch Scrivener for the first time, i.e.,Īll subsequent launches are easy, at least on a Gnome desktop. The workaround, again, is via the terminal. On my system, the installer has trouble creating a desktop launcher. Then use the wine command to install it, like so: Just drop into the Terminal app and navigate to wherever you downloaded the installer. If you do, you’ll liable to get this error: You may get an error message when you double click the installer. I’m sure many in-depth reviews will follow in the coming days-for now, the aim is just to get you started.ĭownload the appropriate version (in most cases, 64-bit) here. Here’s a quick tutorial on installing Scrivener 3 on Linux (in my case, Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS). There’s still an installation error you may need to work around, but once you do you’ll be happy with the results. I’ve written a number of posts on Scrivener 3 betas just search on “Scrivener 3” to find them. ![]() Is it worth the $49 cost? Absolutely there’s no real competition. And once you do have Scrivener 3 up and running, it’s good looking and functional. There are a few initial glitches, at least on my Ubuntu setup, but they’re easily circumvented. Let’s take a quick look at how it works with Wine on Linux. It may be April Fool’s Day, but the official release actually came on March 23. After a very long wait, Scrivener 3 for Windows has finally been released.
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