finding a good EXPRO replacement on linux

 

 

 

 

Over the various months and redesigns of this website, the tools I use to maintain it have changed over time

At first, I used nano on linux and I did everything BY HAND (God kill me), but then, I stumbled upon "microsoft frontpage", a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) html editor,

 

the problem is that, this program is old as fuck, and it's starting to have, old-as-fuck-program problems

 

so I had to find a replacement, and that's where I found Expression web (or EXPRO), which is essentially the 2010s reboot of frontpage

 

Matter of fact, expro is pretty good and I still use it to this day, it doesn't crash and looks a lot better too (along with having more QOL stuff)

 

The problem? Frontpage is only on windows, and at the time, I was maining my macbook, so I had to find yet ANOTHER alternative, which was "kompozer"

Don't get me wrong, kompozer is good, but it's not as good as Expro, but still, it was sufficient for my macbook

 

that is, until I switched to Arch linux and realized that this shitty ahh abandonware only has a .deb version for linux, and on an older version too (the latest beta just doesn't start neither on x11 nor wayland)

 

and so, the search begins again, I tried to make expro work on arch with wine, no success

then I tried kompozer with wine, but it was in a weird fucking language

so, my last option was frontpage 2003, and it finally worked

 

SO, for now, my current setup is:

windows pc: expro

main pc and laptop: fp2003

mac: kompozer

 

if I'll ever find a better cross platform WYSIWYG thingy i'll just use that ig

(this page is written using Expro)