Verdict: No
No. Literature and Latte make Scrivener for Windows, Mac and iOS only. There is no current Linux version, and Manuskript is the closest free stand-in rather than a replacement.
Scrivener's own overview page lists macOS, Windows and iOS. Linux is not there. An unsupported Linux beta circulated years ago and was abandoned. It is not something to build a book on.
Manuskript is the free program people land on instead. It does the planning half well, with an outline of chapters and scenes, index cards you can shuffle, character sheets, plot lines and world notes, plus a distraction free writing mode and export to DOCX, ODT and ePub. What it does not match is Scrivener's compile step, where the formatting of the finished manuscript is worked out in detail, and the whole thing feels rougher.
There is no import. A Scrivener project cannot be opened by anything on Linux, so if you have a book in progress, export it from Scrivener on Windows first. Compile to DOCX or RTF while you still have the Windows machine, keep the .scriv folder as a backup, and rebuild the structure by hand on the other side.
If the structure mattered less to you than the quiet writing space, LibreOffice Writer with a document per chapter, or Obsidian with a folder of notes, may suit better than Manuskript.
Free, with an outliner, index cards and character notes. Weaker at formatting the finished book, and it cannot open a Scrivener project.
Your files: No Scrivener import. Export to DOCX or RTF from Windows first, then rebuild the structure.
A folder of plain notes with strong linking and search. Good for research heavy writing, with no compile step at all.
Your files: Reads Markdown and plain text. Scrivener text has to be exported first.
Plain and familiar. A document per chapter with a master document to pull them together, and proper export control.
Your files: Opens the DOCX or RTF you compile out of Scrivener before leaving Windows.
One stubborn program doesn't have to decide the whole question. You can keep Windows on the same PC and restart into it only when you need Scrivener. Everything else you do can move.
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