I want to get word, excel, powerpoint, onedrive and copilot on ubuntu, anyone know how?
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.
Also, make sure to install MS Fonts. Otherwise there’s a good chance sharing documents with Windows users will mess up formatting. I learned that the hard way.
copilot is the new “Cortana”, they’re pushing it to windows 10 and 11.
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.
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.
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’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
Well this is true but again if you use MS apps, you probably should just use Windows
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.
Seconding this, webapp-manager is what linux mint comes with and is the best option so far
VirtualBox?
Virtualizing the whole windows OS right inside Linux I think it’s the best option if you want to use the M$ ecosystem.
Don’t use Virtual box for that. Use KVM with Virtio (you will need the virtio drivers from Fedora)
They are both viable options that have different advantages.
VBox has a nice friendly GUI.
KVM is fast & efficient.
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
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.
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.
I mean. does o365 not work or you specifically want to run the exe’s?
If you have to you can, sometimes. But you should use alternatives, if possible.
Try fmstrat/winapps it’s installation process is well documented and it works relatively well. In case you don’t need too much functionality (e.g. complex formatting/custom template/a ton of custom add-ons) the online version might work for you. There’s also a web app for teams you can find on flathub iirc. Betterbird also gives you a ton of options and with owl addin it handles exchange pretty well and also gives you access to the teams web app directly inside betterbird
Copilot is available in Microsoft Edge, and you can bind a hotkey to open it.
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”.
Buy CrossOver for Linux. Positive side effect: you support Wine development.
If you are brave and have time: Wine
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.
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 :)
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