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I can't really count myself as an author since I've only sold a couple short stories to tiny magazines back in the 80s. (My brother and I also published a couple very short-lived small press magazines in the late 80s and early 90s.)
But I do use Linux for writing. Mostly (since about 2000) I play around with short screen plays (now only a hobby) and use either Trelby or Fountain-Mode (a mark-up format) in Emacs for writing them. I also own Fade In (bought that mostly to support the publisher since they put out a Linux version). I can use ScriptThing for DOS in DOSBox-X, export to .ascii and import that into Fade In and it preserves all formatting. ScriptThing for DOS was my first screenplay writing software, so I enjoy using it for nostalgic reasons. (And it's still a good program.)
If I was going write short stories or a novel now, I would use WordStar 7 for DOS in DOSBox-X, then use the Convert utility to convert the WordStar file to RTF format and load that into LibreOffice. It works well (preserving most formatting) with just a few adjustments in LibreOffice. WordStar is by far my favorite word processor — I like keeping my fingers on the "home keys" of the keyboard. And I've been using WordStar since the late-80s, so my fingers have been "hard wired" for WordStar keystrokes (for over 45 years now). I also use the Jstar "flavor" (WordStar keystrokes) of the JOE editor in the Linux terminal.
For what it's worth.
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