I want to get word, excel, powerpoint, onedrive and copilot on ubuntu, anyone know how?
You could use libreoffice apps and then convert it to Microsoft formats to share with your coworkers.
I tried this once and it deleted 3 hours worth of comments on a Word doc. Never again
Buy CrossOver for Linux. Positive side effect: you support Wine development.
There’s Onedriver to connect onedrive on Linux. Though it’s been a while since I last used it.
Web apps
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using it and using it successfully with others is a different story.
According to the official AppDB in winehq.org, getting this to work seems to be strongly dependent on the specific version.
PlayOnLinux takes care of it for you. Office 2013 supposedly works very well, Office 2016 can be sometimes buggy. For the 2016 version you need to get the 32 bit iso.
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2010 is EOL
I still use Office 97 and 2000. Works fine for what I need
Still a bad idea. I didn’t say they didn’t work what I said is that it is a major security risk. There are people who still run Windows XP and it works for them. However, it is also a security risk.
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That’s is a bad idea as the old Office doesn’t receive security patches
Do people even still target ancient versions?
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Probably, as this version is supposed to have platinum support.
Seconding this, webapp-manager is what linux mint comes with and is the best option so far
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the most recent version of GNOME has OneDrive support
Just to check, do you mean the Microsoft version of Onedrive, or the abraunegg Linux version?
Abraunegg’s version is brilliant, but the MS version would make my life easier :)
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A developer, Abraunegg, has made a Linux tool that syncs a Microsoft Onedrive account with a Linux system, in the same way that the Microsoft Onedrive tool does on Windows. They’ve named their tool Onedrive too.
I didn’t know if you were talking about Microsoft Onedrive compatibility in Gnome, or Abraunegg’s Onedrive. It gets a bit confusing when they both have the same name.
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That makes sense, thanks :)
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Thanks :)
I take it that’s a third party client that syncs with MS Onedrive?
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Ah, I know the one. I’ve used it for Google Drive in the past. I didn’t know it could do Onedrive too though.
Linux is not only about privacy. It’s primarily about freedom.
OnlyOffice has fantastic support for Microsoft originated documents. I typically use the Flatpak version. The look and feel is very similar to the office suite so you should be “right at home”.
libre office not being a smart arse either. it’s the easiest way. i am making some assumptions however. i assume you are a full on Linux user at home and have to deal with MS Office documents of various types at work or some other reason. you can work on that document at work un MS Office. bring it home and work on it some more in libre office. and back again.
If you are brave and have time: Wine
Copilot is available in Microsoft Edge, and you can bind a hotkey to open it.
If you have to you can, sometimes. But you should use alternatives, if possible.
Idk if this has been proven, but I’m certain that the current desktop versions of Office apps are just Electron-style wrappers for the web versions. I switched from Windows to Linux about a year ago and have found the web apps to be perfectly sufficient
My reason to use M$ Office was Visual Basic which didn’t work on Libre Office and that doesn’t work in the web apps either.
If so, they’re pretty good at covering it up. You can usually tell Electron apps from how they behave (mousing over any clickable UI elements turns into a hand on Electron but native apps usually don’t, etc.) but I’ve always thought that Office apps, including the latest, are native.
Its pretty clear that old Outlook is native and the new Outlook is Electron just based on how it feels.
In my opinion the web apps are better. i work for two companies using their own IT setups; at both, the installed W10 apps suck. They get stuck and lag or struggle to scroll to data im searching etc. The web app always works as expected, assuming your internet is good
I mean. does o365 not work or you specifically want to run the exe’s?
OnlyOffice has amazing compatibility with MS office formats and has an interface quite similar to the MS apps.
But if you want something a bit more feature rich, LibreOffice is the way to go.
I know it’s not really what you asked for, but unless you want to run an ancient version of the office suite in Wine, it’s the way to go. The MS office web apps on MS’s website is also an option.
The flowchart is as follows:
LibreOffice or OnlyOffice for desktop apps (no, they are not Microsoft apps, but yes they use Microsoft formats and can edit and save Microsoft documents/spreadsheets/etc). OnlyOffice is the closest of the two to the Windows experience.
If you really aren’t open to using alternative software (which is strange given that you’re using Linux), then the web apps exist. I’ve heard they’re really close to the actual desktop suite, though I don’t have any interest in ever using them as we have very good free and open source alternatives available (see above).
If the web apps don’t cut it for you, then you can run the official apps in a VM, or maybe through WINE. Here’s the WINE DB page for Microsoft Office, which lists various Office versions and their level of compatibility through WINE.
Copilot will likely not be possible to secure on Linux in a standalone desktop app (unless someone somewhere hacked something together through Electron to use a web version). Another user said that Copilot is available inside Microsoft Edge, so I suppose you could install that, though I’d highly discourage that. Reliance on LLMs is quite frankly a plague to society, and often feeds incorrect, biased, or purely fabricated responses, as LLMs merely attempt to predict what word is most likely to occur next based on a set of training data, none of which was vetted for accuracy, racism, zionism, sexism, etc. LLMs like copilot do not have any form of intelligence, and do not understand what they are saying. I highly recommend you just use a search engine in your browser, because it’ll feed you the same info all the LLMs were trained on anyway.OneDrive recently received native support in GNOME, so I think you should be able to access it in your settings under accounts/connected services (whatever GNOME calls it nowadays)? I’ve never tried to use it, so other people will know better than I will there, but it should be possible to use.
I have a Windows VM on my server. If I need MS Office or any Windows-only program I just use Remmina to RDP in and get stuff done.
Windows has pretty good touch support over RDP so I can even do this from my phone or tablet if I need a full desktop on the go (using a VPN).
Have you tried an oldie but goodie called winapps? It still works now and lets you use remote rdp to windows to show each specific program as a window on your linux desktop
Yes! I’ve used that before.
I spun up a trial version of Windows Server and tried to get it working. It seemed to want a Domain environment and I didn’t want to go down that road. There probably is a way to do it without setting up a Domain but I didn’t feel like messing with it at the time.
The domain can be “localhost”. You just need to forward the RDP port from your host to the Windows guest.
Hmm… for me on a regular windows vm it works though, weird
Maybe something I should look into again.
