Many have tried, all have failed (at least to meet some or most of their expectations); in the quest to find a decent and feature-rich native Linux desktop blog editor, anything that can match the outstanding and free Windows Live Writer. The latter of course won’t run on Linux via Wine, unlike another option: After a long and arduous install/try/remove cycle with most Linux blog editors, I have to agree with this article: in the end you’ll end up with BlogJet and install it this way:
As first suggested here for Zoundry, it works with BlogJet as well and is endorsed by its creator: Get IEs4Linux and from WITHIN IE go to File>Open [All Files] and run the downloaded BlogJet installer:
Not sure if you’ll need the mfc42.dll file as suggested in the Zoundry article. After a quick install you’ll have a fast and well-designed blog editor on your Linux system which is almost as good as Windows Live Writer at most everyday blogging tasks.
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