for some background, I’m on latest stable Kubuntu. able to use Microsoft Office via a KVM+Winapps setup currently. it mostly works but there are a few kinks like the display frame getting fucked up when going full screen or windowed, drag and drop being hit or miss and whatnot…

i did read up on Office 2019 being installable using Wine, but wasn’t able to find any methods to activate it. MAS isn’t really a thing on wine since we don’t have Powershell I believe. any ideas?

  • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Is this for work? Just have your work pay for your Microsoft 365 or whatever, not sure why you’d need to pirate anything for work related reasons.

    If this is for home use just get your workflow working with the free open source alternatives, IMO LibreOffice is pretty great.

    Or just start using the online office apps like everyone else is nowadays e.g. Google Docs (free with a Google Account), Microsoft 365 (I know at least Word you can use for free with a Microsoft account haven’t checked what else), etc.

    It’s just a bit odd needing to pirate that. But sure if you’re dead-set on it then just create a Virtual Machine with Windows OS in it (LOL you may end up pirating that too) and install your MS Office and whatever other cracks/activators you want. Now you have MS Office in your virtual machine whenever you need it. You could use VirtualBox for example.

  • Gamey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    If you need Microsoft Office on Linux I recommend the web version of 360 and if you want to pirate it on Linux I would go for a VM, it’s not the best experiebce in Wine from what I have heared.

  • VonReposti@feddit.dkEnglish
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    2 years ago

    This might be a stupid question but now that you’re on Linux, why not use something like LibreOffice or Collabora?

    • _comfortablyAverage_@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      01·
      2 years ago

      Libreoffice is the most atrociously structured piece of software I ever encountered. not only is the UI absolutely dated and god awful trash, it can fuck up microsoft office formatted documents. i possess a special hate for it since it decided to crap out on me when I REALLY positively needed it.

      don’t know about collabora, will look into it

      • luna@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        If you dislike the UI, you can turn on an MS Office-like ribbon design in the settings