Hey All,
I was wondering if there has been any advances in getting office 365 to work in Linux?
I have a family plan for it so I want to be able to use it on my laptop that I’ve switch over to fedora from windows.
I am not real fond of the other offerings and don’t want to have to fork out for an alternative when I have the main player already.
I’m considering at the moment to just running a vm hosted at home but keen to see if anyone else has something they have been using
I’ve tried but found it more or less impossible. Wine doesn’t work with the current 365 installer as far as I know.
My current solution is to use Mint’s “web app manager” to open the web versions of the office apps, and a VM for stuff like Power BI. Sadly some of the tab functionality in the desktop Excel doesn’t really work in Firefox.
I kind of want to install Edge for linux and see if it preserves the expected tab functionality. Though that may not even work on Windows (because I’ve never used the web versions on a Windows box).
https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/microsoft-office-365
You may find this currently to work sufficiently, though for myself when last testing ~ 6 months ago it did not (and on a couple of wildly different distros). In Feb they readvertised the current release with office 365 featuring in that so they at least, think this is a feature.
There is a trial, so you don’t have to put cash up front to find out but if, let’s say it works now, I’d caution that an update you can’t opt out of (and you need to remain connected, for the 365 rent) may randomly break it. Accidentally of course.
I’ve found the most maintainable way to lock it all off in a VM & internet barred on one of the perpetual releases.
Possibly not for you, but possibly curious to any passing readers:
https://github.com/dockur/windows
Running Office 365 on Linux can be a bit tricky since there’s no native support. A common workaround is to use online versions of Office apps. For example, if you need to work with spreadsheets, you can use excel online. It offers many of the features found in the desktop version and runs well in a browser on Linux. Plus, it integrates smoothly with other Office apps and services. You can access it through your web browser without needing any special software.
You could run Office 365 in a Windows pro VM (OS can be unregistered as well) and use Freerdp to launch explorer in app mode and from there launch the Office desktop applications. This most likely has its own caveats and you‘ll have to share a folder in your home directory with the VM in order to save to your host os.