If you want to try out Scribus, take the development branch (1.5.x)!
I highly recommend going for the development branch that provides a lot of useful features still missing in the stable branch. And it's quite stable as well. Do frequently save your work, though.
I've moved a student newspaper template from an old InDesign template to scribus several years ago and it worked very well. InDesign had many comfortable tools but it would regularly crash our old machines and the volunteers working for the paper could't use it on the go on their private computers.
Scribus was easy to install, ran also on Linux, had a lower impact on the machine's performance (or it would crash before the machine, so save frequently :) )
I highly recommend going for the development branch that provides a lot of useful features still missing in the stable branch. And it's quite stable as well. Do frequently save your work, though.
I've moved a student newspaper template from an old InDesign template to scribus several years ago and it worked very well. InDesign had many comfortable tools but it would regularly crash our old machines and the volunteers working for the paper could't use it on the go on their private computers.
Scribus was easy to install, ran also on Linux, had a lower impact on the machine's performance (or it would crash before the machine, so save frequently :) )