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Linux can run on Excel, but not Excel on Linux.

• grishka 1y ago
  Excel, at least old versions, does run on Linux using Wine.
  • Aardwolf 1y ago
    Then it may be possible to run Excel on Linux in Excel
    • xattt 1y ago
      I’d like to see bare-metal Excel.
      • grishka 1y ago
        I was going to say that first versions were technically that, but apparently Excel was never released for DOS, Excel 2.0 was already a Windows application, and 1.0 was only available on Mac.
        • Aardwolf 1y ago
          Lotus 1-2-3 was available for DOS
        • tech234a 1y ago
          It was actually a Windows application that shipped it's own runtime copy of Windows [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168173
    • redbell 1y ago
      > run Excel on Linux in Excel This remind me of the top comment on Puter's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838179): "I am the author of the 'app' called Puter which loads up Puter inside Puter, which then loads up the Puter app again, which ..."
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• smodo 1y ago
  Excel is not even Excel anymore. It’s different on Windows, Mac, web, mobile… And there’s different bugs across all them! My favorite ones have to do with regional defaults.
  • sargstuff 1y ago
    > Excel is not even Excell anymore. ?? LAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ultimatae-excel-worksheet-function/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ult... ) or "Autocorrect errors in excel still creating genomics headaches" ( https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02211-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02211-4 ) Guess time to bump things up to a higher order portable programming language. Python for excel anyone vs. go "R".
• timcavel 1y ago
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