I’ve recently switched to Linux (Debian Bookworm) because I was tired of all the bullshits I had to deal with when using Windows, especially when developing software.
Now I really have to use MS Office applications for my school. Libreoffice is good but not completely compatible with MSOffice, like I can’t use the log graph in the template provided. And their web apps are nearly unusable (especially with Firefox and its variants) , so I need desktop versions.
I can use VM maybe but I don’t want to pay for the Windows license.
How do you guys manage to open MS files appropriately?
I can use VM maybe but I don’t want to pay for the Windows license.
If this is your only concern, there’s a script floating arround on github (MAS 104k *) that activate any Windows version.
Not sure I’m allowed to send any links because this could be considerate as piracy and probably isn’t allowed in this community.
But you have enough keywords to find your way with any search engine if that’s a route you would consider.
Onlyoffice is said to have better compatibility with MS Office so that may be worth a try.
Hmm. It’s proprietary but I have to get my work done…
I thought it was open
but I could be wronglooking at their website it says the code is available on github
Hope you find a solution! I will start school next year and mabey i will search for the same solution as you. Good luck. I use Libreoffice as my main program for documents, writing ect.
If you need honest-to-god office, then yeah you’ll need a windows installation. Either a VM or a second drive is best.
You can use windows indefinitely without activating, you’ll just have the watermark and default desktop background.
It sounds like the only problem is that you can’t edit a graph in a template, is that true? Any chance you can post the file, or perhaps just the graph section of the file? If it’s rendering properly in LibreOffice then I suspect someone can figure out how to edit it.
Do you have a school computer lab you can use? If the school truly requires MS Office and gives you a copy, they will have no sympathy for not using it.
I have access to school desktops that I can login with my credentials, but this way I need to go to the campus everytime I want to do something with MS Office. That’s fine though because it’s just 10 minutes away from home with my bicycle
I don’t have experience with this because I use Google docs for simple documents and latex for anything serious, but it may help.
https://gist.github.com/eylenburg/38e5da371b7fedc0662198efc66be57b
Thanks. I’ll try when all linux native solutions didn’t work for me
