Can this run office 365 on Linux. I don't really care about alternatives, I need Teams, One Drive, PowerBI and Excel or I can't move. Otherwise I have to stick with WSL
WSL2 is probably hard to beat. They've added GPU passthrough, and now have Wayland built-in with wslg. Some buggy stuff remains, systemd support is a bit rough, etc. But they do keep iterating. I do wish they had a full-screen mode where you could use your own window manager, like many Windows X11 servers optionally allow.
But it's good enough now that I rarely find things that don't work. At least for now, it's also a bit of an escape from corporate over-management of desktops. Most companies haven't yet figured out how to overmanage it in the way they do with regular Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
They move to linux to be in control of their OS, to manage their dependencies and to embrace an open platform that scale from embedded to IoT to datacenters
If your goal is to use a proprietary OS that spy on you and is bloated, only to run a linux VM, then you don't understand why cloud native is 100% linux
That's the problem of the people who work at Microsoft have, they became blind and don't understand the real intent of people using linux!
Bloat driven development is certainly not one of them!
I agree that set of people is one group of users. I use WSL to write code for work, where I also need Windows for Office and some drawing tools. I imagine I'm not the only one.
I downloaded the installer from a windows machine. After trying to install and run, it still complained about a missing implementation. The tutorial explains how to install using wine 5.11, to make it run correctly, simply run it using wine 5.12 after installed.
I used bottles to install wine versions my distro wasn't shipped with. Also used winetricks to install fonts. At the end it works, but be aware: it is slow and buggy.
It's been getting much better over the years, I remember Pivot Tables making it in being the hot shit in the online version a couple years back, but it's still not to parity for advanced use. The biggest pain point probably being limited data sources though I think there is still a file size limit too (30 MB last I remember, better than at first!). New features still get cooked in the desktop previews first as well e.g. even if your account is set to insider preview lamdba won't work in Excel Online at the moment.
It looks like the only officially supported program that isn't a game is amazon music [1]. The main project for running windows on Linux has a partially working distribution of Office 365. My impression is that it sometimes works with significant manual effort, wouldn't be reliable enough to depend on without a backup system [2].
When I need Office apps to communicate with clients I use a combination of Google Docs download as docx, Office Online, and a VM.
Android office apps seem to work for me via waydroid. Otherwise, web office seems to be enough for 90% of people (where libreoffice and onlyoffice already seem to cover the needs for 70%). Of course, you might have a very specific need for MS Office, no judgement :)
