Why don’t just use something like Joplin? Or you could try NovelWriter. Both are open source and easy to use.

I have flashes of Solaris in my mind :)

If you can’t provide a better reason than a meme you are already out of the running with life.

How did you test it’s apparent ‘slowness’? I use it and have no issue.

Fingers crossed for this. :)

Closed is closed is closed. Not even going to test on one of my VMs. :/