Here are a few links to previous discussions:
- Who want a Linux release version?
- Please, release a native version for Linux again. This one doesn’t actually have much in it, because I had to fork out an entire flame war.
As for my thoughts on the matter, they are best phrased in the second thread above. But the short and sweet: I use Linux as well, I find both Windows and macOS to be intolerable these days. Hopefully some day we can find the time to flesh out our support again.
For myself, I’ve trended toward using VirtualBox more than Wine over the past year or two. It started with needing a more accurate frame of reference for QA purposes, but after a while I didn’t mind using it that way in general. With Win10 and Scrivener running, and nothing else, you don’t need much more than 2.5gb of RAM and a single core set aside. I leave the machine detached from the internet entirely, so I don’t really have to worry about it.
Otherwise, as a moderator: I’m not calling anyone out specifically, but as you can see in this thread and others, there is too little of the old maxim being deployed: if you don’t have anything good to say or contribute, aren’t a Linux user and don’t understand why someone would be, maybe the next thread in the list is a better one to put your time into? Just a thought.