I want to get word, excel, powerpoint, onedrive and copilot on ubuntu, anyone know how?
Web apps
I also saw someone on YouTube launching Word via wine so I guess it’s also an option
According to the official AppDB in winehq.org, getting this to work seems to be strongly dependent on the specific version.
I think I saw Word 2010 running. Idk about other versions
Probably, as this version is supposed to have platinum support.
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.
I’ve never seen any issues with it. People here used MS Office 2007 until like 2019. It should be fine as long as it supports docx and the document doesn’t have complicated scripts (which nobody uses here so can’t tell about them)
That’s is a bad idea as the old Office doesn’t receive security patches
Do people even still target ancient versions?
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.
Buy CrossOver for Linux. Positive side effect: you support Wine development.
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
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
Office 365 on the web works well on Linux if that has enough functionality for you. If not, the only way to get a modern version of the real Microsoft Office is in a VM. Older versions will run over Wine.
As far as alternatives go, OnlyOffice has the best reputation for file compatibility. I use LibreOffice and am very happy with it.
Avoid OpenOffice. It is really just an ancient version of LibreOffice.
Another person already answered about the office apps so I won’t mention it. What I know is that the most recent version of GNOME has OneDrive support so Ubuntu 24.04 should have it. Copilot is impossible to get. Also if you use the Microsoft suite, you probably should be running Windows. There’s not that much point in switching to Linux in this case
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 :)
It is the Gnome Online Accounts version.
Thanks :)
I take it that’s a third party client that syncs with MS Onedrive?
Correct, it is one of multiple that are available, it just happens to be built into Gnome. It also syncs with Google Drive and some others.
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.
I didn’t understand the question. Afaik there is no official OneDrive app for Linux
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.
I don’t remember hearing anything about the Abraunegg’s version so I think GNOME made their own implementation or used another base
That makes sense, thanks :)
Linux is not only about privacy. It’s primarily about freedom.
Copilot is available in Microsoft Edge, and you can bind a hotkey to open it.
If you are brave and have time: Wine
VirtualBox?
Virtualizing the whole windows OS right inside Linux I think it’s the best option if you want to use the M$ ecosystem.
Your best option would be to use onlyoffice. Not sure what you mean by copilot. Copilot is available in vscode, vim, jetbrains, all of which are cross platform. You can also try using bavarder if you want something like chatgpt.
I personally use a small tool called mods to access gpt 4 using an openai API key in my terminal, but this option is only great if you have a terminal heavy workflow.
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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).
You don’t (sorry)
There’s Onedriver to connect onedrive on Linux. Though it’s been a while since I last used it.
