jcastp

Yes, the git part is amazing, as well. Not only you can keep track of changes; you can also see your daily progress and word counting :) Totally recommended for any text based workflow.

Disclaimer: I work in IT, so I'm familiar with getting my hand dirty with computers.

I'm using Ubuntu because I know it and I want stability (in the past I experimented a lot with other distros). In fact Ubuntu is the main OS in all of my computers, and my wife and children are using it without not too much issues. I keep a partition with Windows 10, but only for some games that doesn't get well emulated with Steam Proton.

So far, not much problem for the usage we do.

Emacs + orgmode. Quite technical, not for the faint of heart, but it is an amazing tool to keep everything in plain text. If you are not a technical person, probably this is not for you, as it requires quite the tinkering, but once configured to your workflow, it is very good.

Second place for Manuskript (source code), that is an open source scrivener-like application. I like it a lot, but I always go back to emacs, but probably someone here can appreciate it.