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I would love a good WYIWYG desktop screenwriting software.
Writing fountain markup just doesn't work for me. it's hard to explain, and sounds precious, but if my brain is in markup mode it's not in creative mode and vice versa.
Some of the ok ones from the past have been abandoned.
I bought a pro license of fade in which is supposed to be available for Linux but it won't install and support didn't solve it. So I have to work exclusively from my Windows machine... Which I don't love doing.
Linux is still a difficult environment for creative work.
https://github.com/trelby/trelby ?
https://trelby.org/
Found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Documents#Screenwriting
I didn't realize it was back in active development. It seemed to be abandonware for years.
That's awesome. I'll have to test drive it. Thanks.
Late reply but I also recommend going through flathub for screenwriting apps if you want more. I saw some options that looked pretty good, although many were proprietary.