wpunix VS olivetti

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.

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.