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.
