olivetti VS wpunix

I also use writeroom because I prefer its simplicity, but worth mentioning that olivetti is the more popular writing mode.

There are nice looking distraction-free setups with https://github.com/joostkremers/writeroom-mode or https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti or https://github.com/joaotavora/darkroom or https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs

For batteries-included packages that give you dedicated prose-writing modes, see also olivetti and writeroom-mode.

You could use olivetti-mode or Writeroom mode.

Another option is the Olivetti package. https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti

Don't have a specific tutorial except to suggest setting org-mode to use olivetti and a nice variable pitch font for writing prose. You might also like the poet theme.

If you want to try out some third-party packages in the beginning, I think the most "bang-for-your-buck" you'll get is with Avy. Also, expand-region. And specifically for writing: olivetti-mode, flyspell, dictionary, and Nicolas Rougier's Nano and Elegant Emacs setups.

Not sure if they'll work on Alpine, but there's WordTsar (a Wordstar clone) and WordPerfect. Alternatively, you could run Word 5.5 in DOSBox.

WordPerfect is a thing, still, and while its way more powerful, some would consider to be pretty clunky in terms of usability.

Perhaps tangential, but there is a Pandoc marco [0] for this program to DOCX via RTF. But I agree, I can do all sorts of things but eventually I am often required to get a document in DOCX. Love Pandoc.

[0] https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/issues/17

A text editor and a word processor are different things. There are things you can do very easily in a word processor that are difficult in a text editor, and vice versa. I actually wrote a FAQ about this!

https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/wiki/FAQ#q-why-not-just-use

(Fwiw, I'm a daily vim user)

In fact, WordPerfect for UNIX does work on Linux, see here.