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I have not used Codeweavers for many years, because I have switched to LibreOffice after it became able to convert well enough most of the MS Office documents.
by adrian_b 3y ago
I have not used Codeweavers for many years, because I have switched to LibreOffice after it became able to convert well enough most of the MS Office documents.
Nevertheless, before that I have used Codeweavers CrossOver for some years, mainly to run MS Office on Linux.
During that time I have been very satisfied with Codeweavers CrossOver, because the latest MS Office Professional versions available in those years were running under Linux at least as stable as under Windows and for some operations they were even faster than under Windows (presumably due to the faster file system).
Earlier, during the Windows XP days, running MS Office Professional with CrossOver on Linux was even much more stable than on Windows XP, because before many Service Packs have accumulated fixing tons of Windows XP bugs, it was not unusual for MS Office to crash, even if such events were much more rare than with older Windows versions, like Windows 98.
At least at that time when I was still using CrossOver, Wine supported well only older MS Office versions and had some problems with the latest.
Even if I have no longer needed their product for many years, CrossOver remains one of the few software products that I have purchased for which I consider that the price paid for it was completely worthwhile, because it did exactly what I needed and what I had expected.