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Help with Office docs + Linux (self.linux)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by fin to c/[email protected]

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I’ve recently switched to Linux (Debian Bookworm) because I was tired of all the bullshits I had to deal with when using Windows, especially when developing software.

Now I really have to use MS Office applications for my school. Libreoffice is good but not completely compatible with MSOffice, like I can’t use the log graph in the template provided. And their web apps are nearly unusable (especially with Firefox and its variants) , so I need desktop versions.

I can use VM maybe but I don’t want to pay for the Windows license.

How do you guys manage to open MS files appropriately?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually Office on Wine is in a pretty usable state so maybe you could give it a try. What does not work (or didn't work the last time I tried, like 2 years ago), was the connection to OneDrive and stuff. So you couldn't work collaboratively.

But otherwise everything worked just fine, just as it did on Windows. One more caveat though, VBA is not available in Excel, in case you need that.

[–] fin 1 points 1 day ago

Okay, maybe I’ll try that too

All other Linux native solutions didn’t seem to work for me

By the way, is there any tutorials or something that you’ve followed during your installation?