I’ve yet to find Apple step back when it comes to customer privacy and security. (within the limits of law)
Obviously, you had something to say, or else you wouldn’t have said anything. 
I suspect we might not be on the same page about what having something to say means.
Back in 2010, when I participated in my first NaNoWriMo, on several occasions I’ve ran into people who were either critical of it at best, or outright hateful at worst. They called us (NaNo participants) graphomaniacs and said that, themselves, they wouldn’t be wasting time on such stupid thing as writing marathons, but one fine day when time is right would instead sit down and write the Next Great Novel.
Like my piano teacher used to say: “One day when never.”
By having something to say I mean having a story that wants one to tell it. That doesn’t mean it needs to be a timeless masterpiece with several layers of philosophical messages.
Thing is, personally, I’ve experienced (and still do) a desire to collect tools in times of writer’s block. I can’t write, it just doesn’t happen, so I start thinking: “If I get a fancy piece of software it might flow. If I get a new computer it might flow. If I get a retreat solely for writing it might flow.” etc. Yet, when it does flow, I find myself not caring much about which medium to use.
So, basically, it means that you don’t really need Scrivener to get a story out. It’s comfortable, but in the end there need to be words, whatever you put them into/onto.
At least, that’s my feeling.
This worries me, too. I have some artist friends, and all of them are concerned about AI gaining momentum. One have already once lost a deal, because publisher decided to optimise with AI (she’s an illustrator). So yes, it’s something serious.
However, I don’t believe I’ve seen an AI powered editor on Linux? Can’t say much about Android, because who knows what Google is up to at any given moment (I think I hate them, sorry).
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To me, that is a publisher which should be given a wide berth. Publishers should be concerned about artists claiming works created by AI as being their own original creation, not insisting on applying AI to a work they have commissioned.
Mark
@Jaaaarne I understood you very well 
. I was reacting to this sentence in particular
Basically, of course, you’re absolutely right. Scrivener does not write stories. And at the same time, perhaps you underestimate what “a change” can do. A change of any kind. A different apartment in which I write, a different app, sometimes just a different chair to sit on. It has nothing to do with these “things”, but with the perception of yourself.
There are no stories that want to be told. Stories don’t want anything. You decide whether you want to tell them. And others decide whether they want to hear or read them. But “a change” can give you the motivation to tell something that you wouldn’t have told otherwise.
Speaking and writing, language, can be a means to an end. Then it conveys content. But much more often it is the end itself, which needs no content. We exchange ideas because it’s good for us, not because it’s good for the idea.
And if you haven’t understood any of this nonsense, don’t worry, I don’t understand it either. 
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Seeing how I’m not even a native speaker… 
Actually, I wouldn’t overestimate “change”, either. A routine, on the other hand, has much better chances of taking me through a block than a change, because for the latter brain would want something new rather often, if not every time.
Looking back on the fourth rewrite of the same novel, I’d say I don’t decide anything here. All this talk about characters hijacking plots? I’ve discovered it was true and people were not joking.
Seriously, though. Maybe that’s what graphomany actually looks like. Something in your head that literally demands to be let out. And then that might be not the means to an end, but the end itself. And we might even convince ourselves that we’ve decided to let it out, not the other way around.
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FWIW, Lutris has an automated installation. You click “yes” a few times, and it does ALL the fiddly Wine stuff.
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I’ve done trial installs of Linux with Lutris on two different MacBook Pros and they were painless. The only issue, the display had vibes of the early days of the Win beta.
Must get around to firing up the under desk Win clunker and trying it on that.
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I’ve had success using lutris to install scrivener in Ubuntu and also Mint. Scrivener trial mode runs well but I’m reluctant to spend £55 on a Windows licence just to see if the licencing server works since there have been issues with that in the past.
Changing the font dpi in lutris and the global UI font in Scrivener makes linux a very usable alternative to using windows.
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I’ve done four trial installs and activation without issue. Touch wood!
Yes, playing with the fonts does sort out the readability issue. Funnily enough on the latest install, Linux on a 2011 MacBook Pro 17", with Mint Linux as the sole OS on the system, the fonts are just fine as is.
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Encouraging that activation worked well for you. Perhaps I’ll risk the £55 after all 