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Can this run office 365 on Linux. I don't really care about alternatives, I need Teams, One Drive, PowerBI and Excel or I can't move. Otherwise I have to stick

Can this run office 365 on Linux. I don't really care about alternatives, I need Teams, One Drive, PowerBI and Excel or I can't move. Otherwise I have to stick with WSL

jeroenhd 5y ago
No. Wine can't implement modern features fast enough for stuff like office to work. That's not the goal of this tool, though. It's a quality of life improvement for programs that are already known to work in WINE.
iudqnolq 5y ago
It looks like the only officially supported program that isn't a game is amazon music [1]. The main project for running windows on Linux has a partially working distribution of Office 365. My impression is that it sometimes works with significant manual effort, wouldn't be reliable enough to depend on without a backup system [2]. When I need Office apps to communicate with clients I use a combination of Google Docs download as docx, Office Online, and a VM. [1]: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs [2]: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=35527&iTestingId=98964 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
marcodiego 5y ago
I was able to install following instructions available here: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/office_365_is_working_again_on_wine/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/off... and here: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/office_365_is_working_again_on_wine/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/off... . I downloaded the installer from a windows machine. After trying to install and run, it still complained about a missing implementation. The tutorial explains how to install using wine 5.11, to make it run correctly, simply run it using wine 5.12 after installed. I used bottles to install wine versions my distro wasn't shipped with. Also used winetricks to install fonts. At the end it works, but be aware: it is slow and buggy.
- senectus1 5y ago
  is that not the same link twice?
  - marcodiego 5y ago
    Think you're right. Correct links: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/office_365_is_working_again_on_wine/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/off... and https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/office_365_is_working_again_on_wine/fwd7bhu/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/off...
MayeulC 5y ago
Android office apps seem to work for me via waydroid. Otherwise, web office seems to be enough for 90% of people (where libreoffice and onlyoffice already seem to cover the needs for 70%). Of course, you might have a very specific need for MS Office, no judgement :) edit: though a VM can work too.
tyingq 5y ago
WSL2 is probably hard to beat. They've added GPU passthrough, and now have Wayland built-in with wslg. Some buggy stuff remains, systemd support is a bit rough, etc. But they do keep iterating. I do wish they had a full-screen mode where you could use your own window manager, like many Windows X11 servers optionally allow. But it's good enough now that I rarely find things that don't work. At least for now, it's also a bit of an escape from corporate over-management of desktops. Most companies haven't yet figured out how to overmanage it in the way they do with regular Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
- Shadonototra 5y ago
  That's not the reason people use linux They move to linux to be in control of their OS, to manage their dependencies and to embrace an open platform that scale from embedded to IoT to datacenters If your goal is to use a proprietary OS that spy on you and is bloated, only to run a linux VM, then you don't understand why cloud native is 100% linux That's the problem of the people who work at Microsoft have, they became blind and don't understand the real intent of people using linux! Bloat driven development is certainly not one of them!
  - tyingq 5y ago
    I agree that set of people is one group of users. I use WSL to write code for work, where I also need Windows for Office and some drawing tools. I imagine I'm not the only one.
jimnotgym 5y ago
For everyone questioning the need for MS office. If you are an advanced Excel user nothing else will do.
- robertlagrant 5y ago
  Office online?
  - zamadatix 5y ago
    It's been getting much better over the years, I remember Pivot Tables making it in being the hot shit in the online version a couple years back, but it's still not to parity for advanced use. The biggest pain point probably being limited data sources though I think there is still a file size limit too (30 MB last I remember, better than at first!). New features still get cooked in the desktop previews first as well e.g. even if your account is set to insider preview lamdba won't work in Excel Online at the moment.
petepete 5y ago
I've just tried with Office 2013 and 2016, neither worked. Didn't make it as far as the installer screen each time. To make sure it was installed properly I tried Notepad++ and it worked flawlessly. Office is just a bit of a pain.
- citizenpaul 5y ago
  I once read that office basically functions like a VM. I don't know how true that was but I guess it makes it not really software but a deployment.
Shadonototra 5y ago
Well stick to windows, nobody forcing you to move! If linux doesn't have what you need, it's 100% fine! Linux is here for people willing to stop depending on proprietary mono-platform driven stacks The world is moving, you'll be left behind, if not already Developpers already moved with it, what's left are the old "ms" office people! the modern ones use gmail suite

Can this run office 365 on Linux. I don't really care about alternatives, I need Teams, One Drive, PowerBI and Excel or I can't move. Otherwise I have to stick with WSL

jeroenhd 5y ago

No. Wine can't implement modern features fast enough for stuff like office to work. That's not the goal of this tool, though. It's a quality of life improvement for programs that are already known to work in WINE.

iudqnolq 5y ago

It looks like the only officially supported program that isn't a game is amazon music [1]. The main project for running windows on Linux has a partially working distribution of Office 365. My impression is that it sometimes works with significant manual effort, wouldn't be reliable enough to depend on without a backup system [2]. When I need Office apps to communicate with clients I use a combination of Google Docs download as docx, Office Online, and a VM. [1]: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs [2]: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=35527&iTestingId=98964 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

marcodiego 5y ago

I was able to install following instructions available here: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/office_365_is_working_again_on_wine/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/off... and here: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/office_365_is_working_again_on_wine/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/off... . I downloaded the installer from a windows machine. After trying to install and run, it still complained about a missing implementation. The tutorial explains how to install using wine 5.11, to make it run correctly, simply run it using wine 5.12 after installed. I used bottles to install wine versions my distro wasn't shipped with. Also used winetricks to install fonts. At the end it works, but be aware: it is slow and buggy.

senectus1 5y ago
is that not the same link twice?
- marcodiego 5y ago
  Think you're right. Correct links: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/office_365_is_working_again_on_wine/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/off... and https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/office_365_is_working_again_on_wine/fwd7bhu/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/off...

MayeulC 5y ago

Android office apps seem to work for me via waydroid. Otherwise, web office seems to be enough for 90% of people (where libreoffice and onlyoffice already seem to cover the needs for 70%). Of course, you might have a very specific need for MS Office, no judgement :) edit: though a VM can work too.

tyingq 5y ago

WSL2 is probably hard to beat. They've added GPU passthrough, and now have Wayland built-in with wslg. Some buggy stuff remains, systemd support is a bit rough, etc. But they do keep iterating. I do wish they had a full-screen mode where you could use your own window manager, like many Windows X11 servers optionally allow. But it's good enough now that I rarely find things that don't work. At least for now, it's also a bit of an escape from corporate over-management of desktops. Most companies haven't yet figured out how to overmanage it in the way they do with regular Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

Shadonototra 5y ago
That's not the reason people use linux They move to linux to be in control of their OS, to manage their dependencies and to embrace an open platform that scale from embedded to IoT to datacenters If your goal is to use a proprietary OS that spy on you and is bloated, only to run a linux VM, then you don't understand why cloud native is 100% linux That's the problem of the people who work at Microsoft have, they became blind and don't understand the real intent of people using linux! Bloat driven development is certainly not one of them!
- tyingq 5y ago
  I agree that set of people is one group of users. I use WSL to write code for work, where I also need Windows for Office and some drawing tools. I imagine I'm not the only one.

jimnotgym 5y ago

For everyone questioning the need for MS office. If you are an advanced Excel user nothing else will do.

robertlagrant 5y ago
Office online?
- zamadatix 5y ago
  It's been getting much better over the years, I remember Pivot Tables making it in being the hot shit in the online version a couple years back, but it's still not to parity for advanced use. The biggest pain point probably being limited data sources though I think there is still a file size limit too (30 MB last I remember, better than at first!). New features still get cooked in the desktop previews first as well e.g. even if your account is set to insider preview lamdba won't work in Excel Online at the moment.

petepete 5y ago

I've just tried with Office 2013 and 2016, neither worked. Didn't make it as far as the installer screen each time. To make sure it was installed properly I tried Notepad++ and it worked flawlessly. Office is just a bit of a pain.

citizenpaul 5y ago
I once read that office basically functions like a VM. I don't know how true that was but I guess it makes it not really software but a deployment.

Shadonototra 5y ago

Well stick to windows, nobody forcing you to move! If linux doesn't have what you need, it's 100% fine! Linux is here for people willing to stop depending on proprietary mono-platform driven stacks The world is moving, you'll be left behind, if not already Developpers already moved with it, what's left are the old "ms" office people! the modern ones use gmail suite