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I tried this method for my wife. So she could use ms office in Linux. This isn’t an elegant solution. She’s back to windows 11. We tried…
by BlaDeKke 10mo ago
I tried this method for my wife. So she could use ms office in Linux. This isn’t an elegant solution. She’s back to windows 11. We tried…
- jeena 10mo agoI'm using MS Office for Work in the browser. But I just live with the shortcomings specifically in PowerPoint where I can't do connectors for example.
- BlaDeKke 10mo agoShe only uses that laptop for MS Office. She did actually use the browser version for a few months, but even that is a significant downgrade compared to native apps. MS Office and most popular multiplayer games are the 2 biggest hurdles for Linux adoption at the moment.
- t0bia_s 10mo agoMany creators would like to abandon Windows completely, bud Adobe...
- yonatan8070 10mo agoI tried using Office on the web for a bit, for some reason there's absolutely no way to disable auto-capitalization on the web, luckily I almost never need to use it anyway, and have LibreOffice and Google Workspace instead.
- burnt-resistor 10mo agoAt least use 11 Enterprise (24H2) to mostly avoid the nonstop cacophony of ads. I don't want to hear about 365 or OneDrive or OneNote or Copilot every 3 μs. Before AppVolumes got bought and became VMware App Volumes, there was Softricity (which became Microsoft App-V).. the app was actually a thin client to talk to a terminal server running the app in a container on a server. Office "installs" in 1 second because it's already "installed" on the app server. The next iteration was AppVolumes streams already installed apps like "Linux snaps" on-demand for Windows to do away with the separate terminal server.
- BlaDeKke 10mo agoWe have a 365 subscription. I guess that reduces the noise quite a lot.
- burnt-resistor 10mo agoPlease stop paying to rent what was owned instead. You're encouraging bad company behavior like subscriptions for heated seats.
- BlaDeKke 10mo agoI’m working on that. Nextcloud + MS Office 2024.
- Telaneo 10mo agoWhat were the problems she encountered? I'd assume lag or inelegance, but that can be fixed by using a native Linux solution (i.e. Libreoffice), but I assume you've already tried/rejected that for other reasons. What were those in that case?
- BlaDeKke 10mo agoLag was certainly a factor, but there were also weird behaviors like visual glitches and UI rendering issues. There were a number of intermittent problems that are hard to list specifically, as it’s been a few months since we tried it. She is not a power user. Working inside a container running Windows just to display MS Word introduces complexity. separate file systems, etc. Sometimes the abstraction breaks, and you "fall out" of the app and end up staring at a Windows environment. It is very confusing for a layperson. On top of that, the RAM overhead was significant for her older laptop. She is a kindergarten teacher. The last thing she can use is friction on her laptop. We didn't try LibreOffice. I'm familiar with it, but the learning curve/transition is just too much friction. They also share a lot of documents with colleagues. I don't know the current state of compatibility between MS Office and LibreOffice, but I recall layouts breaking regularly. She also has a library of templates originally created in MS Office.
- 0134340 10mo agoI'm not very proficient nor really need office apps in my day to day use but I've heard good things about OnlyOffice should LibreOffice not meet your needs.
- circuit10 10mo agoI've used OnlyOffice, the UI is much closer to modern Office and generally feels more polished, and the compatibility is meant to be better as well