Linux

What was the barrier between LibreOffice/OpenOffice and 365? I know there's something that just doesn't translate right, but I can't really remember what, tbh. If I was faced with the same problem, I think I'd just dual boot. Windows for work, Linux for play.

That solution is tantamount to smacking it with a club these days, but I haven't taken the time to familiarize myself with VMs yet. Honestly, its in my list of skills to learn along things like Docker. The future seems to be moving in that direction and I'm lagging behind.

In my experience winapps doesn't work well enough to use for work. I had almost constant issues with it.

I struggled like you for a long time until I found a happy medium. I have a folder on my C: drive called utilities. It's been added to the %PATH%. In it, I have eget with a config for all my utilities for making Windows easier to use. I also have BusyBox for Windows.

It emulates a good 90% of *nix utilities without having to deal with WSL (older environments) or doing anything extensive to your environment (corporate laptop friendly). I recommend you at least give it a try and see if it works for you.

Here's my ~/.config/eget.toml

❯ cat eget.toml
[global]
    github_token = ""
    quiet = false
    show_hash = false
    upgrade_only = true
    system = "windows/amd64"
["sharkdp/fd"]
    asset_filters = ["gnu"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\fd.exe"
["nojima/httpie-go"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\ht.exe"
["schollz/croc"]
    asset_filters = ["64bit", "Windows7" ]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\croc.exe"
["BurntSushi/ripgrep"]
    asset_filters = ["pc-windows-gnu", "^sha256"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\rg.exe"
["go-task/task"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\task.exe"
["vamolessa/verco"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\verco.exe"
["ajeetdsouza/zoxide"]
    asset_filters = ["msvc"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\zoxide.exe"
["ducaale/xh"]
    asset_filters = ["msvc"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\xhs.exe"
["casey/just"]
    asset_filters = ["msvc"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\just.exe"
["sxyazi/yazi"]
    asset_filters = ["msvc"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\yazi.exe"
["Dundee/gdu"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\gdu.exe"
["charmbracelet/skate"]
    asset_filters = ["x86_64", "^json"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\skate.exe"
["charmbracelet/gum"]
    asset_filters = ["x86_64", ".zip", "^json"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\gum.exe"
["Wilfred/difftastic"]
    asset_filters = ["msvc"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\diff.exe"
["zyedidia/eget"]
    asset_filters = ["zip", "amd64"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\eget.exe"
["sharkdp/diskus"]
    asset_filters = ["gnu"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\diskus.exe"
["fastfetch-cli/fastfetch"]
    asset_filters = ["zip"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\fetch.exe"
["junegunn/fzf"]
    asset_filters = ["zip"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\fzf.exe"
["orf/gping"]
    asset_filters = ["zip"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\gping.exe"
["jqlang/jq"]
    asset_filters = ["amd64"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\jq.exe"
["caarlos0/jsonfmt"]
    asset_filters = [".tar.gz"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\jsonfmt.exe"
["lsd-rs/lsd"]
    asset_filters = ["pc-windows-msvc.zip"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\lsd.exe"
["ouch-org/ouch"]
    asset_filters = ["gnu"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\pack.exe"
["SpatiumPortae/portal"]
    asset_filters = ["x86_64"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\pack.exe"
["rclone/rclone"]
    asset_filters = ["amd64", "zip"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\rclone.exe"
["upx/upx"]
    asset_filters = ["win64"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\upx.exe"
["mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd"]
    asset_filters = ["x64"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\7z.exe"
["facebook/zstd"]
    asset_filters = ["win64"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\zstd.exe"
["yt-dlp/yt-dlp"]
    asset_filters = ["yt-dlp.exe"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\yt-dlp.exe"
["aria2/aria2"]
    asset_filters = ["win", "64bit"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\aria2c.exe"
["restic/restic"]
    asset_filters = ["windows", "amd64"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\restic.exe"
["Beastwick18/nyaa"]
    asset_filters = ["windows", "exe"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\nyaa.exe"
["walles/moar"]
    asset_filters = ["windows"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\moar.exe"
["alecthomas/chroma"]
    asset_filters = ["amd64", "windows"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\chroma.exe"
["charmbracelet/glow"]
    asset_filters = ["x86_64", "^json"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\glow.exe"
["arsham/blush"]
    asset_filters = ["windows", "zip"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\blush.exe"
["nushell/nushell"]
    asset_filters = ["pc-windows-msvc.zip"]
    file = "nu.exe"
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\nu.exe"
["owenthereal/ccat"]
    asset_filters = ["windows-amd64"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\ccat.exe"
["FiloSottile/age"]
    asset_filters = ["windows-amd64.zip", "^proof"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\age.exe"
["Owloops/updo"]
    asset_filters = ["Windows_x86_64"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\updo.exe"
["mr-karan/doggo"]
    asset_filters = ["Windows_x86_64"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\dog.exe"
["aandrew-me/tgpt"]
    asset_filters = ["amd64", "exe"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\llm.exe"
["8LWXpg/ptr"]
    asset_filters = ["x86_64"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\ptr.exe"
["astral-sh/ruff"]
    asset_filters = ["pc-windows", "msvc", "x86_64"]
    target = "C:\\Utilities\\exe\\ruff.exe"

It's nice because you can update everything by running eget --download-all.

Office 365 running on Linux using Wine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCfQzQI6HAw

I've never heard of Winapps so did a quick google. Their repository has not been updated in 5 years so it looks abandoned. Probably a bad idea to use it. https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps

I might be daft (Mac for desktop use, Linux for servers), but do they not run with Wine?

All the Office suite has browser based versions. Why would you even bothering to install them?

Regardless, they will work just as well on a VM under Linux as they would on Windows.

Either use qemu to run Windows in a VM, so you can run Office there, or use OnlyOffice, which is a free office app that has the best compatibility with MS office formats (better than libreoffice's). Wine, winapps etc won't work well.

What i did for work stuff that needs windows is i got an old Thinkpad T440S and put windows on that and just use it for work. Things worth like 50$ lol.