for some background, I’m on latest stable Kubuntu. able to use Microsoft Office via a KVM+Winapps setup currently. it mostly works but there are a few kinks like the display frame getting fucked up when going full screen or windowed, drag and drop being hit or miss and whatnot…

i did read up on Office 2019 being installable using Wine, but wasn’t able to find any methods to activate it. MAS isn’t really a thing on wine since we don’t have Powershell I believe. any ideas?

  • VonReposti@feddit.dkEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This might be a stupid question but now that you’re on Linux, why not use something like LibreOffice or Collabora?

    • _comfortablyAverage_@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Libreoffice is the most atrociously structured piece of software I ever encountered. not only is the UI absolutely dated and god awful trash, it can fuck up microsoft office formatted documents. i possess a special hate for it since it decided to crap out on me when I REALLY positively needed it.

      don’t know about collabora, will look into it

      • luna@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        If you dislike the UI, you can turn on an MS Office-like ribbon design in the settings

  • chrizbie@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    WPS office is a closed source, Chinese made office suite that is actually really good if none of that bothers you and you can even install ms fonts

    • iliketrains@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      WPS is definitely decent. I used to use WPS Office, because LibreOffice corrupted my school document files, but it felt too limited and riddled with telemetry. It never suddenly crashed on me and the compatibility was amazing.
      But I have since moved back to LibreOffice because it is more feature complete and more peaceful, knowing that it’s made by a trusted and open foundation. LibreOffice might still not be stable since it still often crashes and becomes unresponsive but at least I never got my documents corrupted again.