WHY DOESN'T MICROSOFT OFFICE WORK ON LINUX
libreoffice
It was made for Windows and not Linux. Linux and Windows use different executable formats and have various other design differences that make running the Microsoft Office software suite natively impossible. Hope this helps.
>>107880150An endless of ocean of compatibility issues
Microsoft Office peaked in the Office 2007 suite, which has now been superseded by LibreOffice, so there's not actually any need to run Office on linux
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>>107880168>I tried libreoffice once 8 years ago and couldn't open a docx file with vbscript macros so I never touched it again
>>107880143Just use Microsoft office on the web you don't need it installed on your PC to do 99% of its features
>>107880143Sistersex
>>107880143>you can use the webapp>most people i know use google docs>libreoffice is fine>is ms office just a preference of you?>the world is shifting to open standard docsI don't get it... if your job depends on MS Office, you probably have a work issued Laptop at home and a desktop at work. And if you don't have a work issued laptop, the webapp is completely fine for quick edits.
The day that linuxfags create a decent excel equivalent will be the day I start using linux, but that would imply they are able to create something of value instead of just cosmetic shit for their OS.
>>107880143If windows games run on linux with wine, I don't seem why Office couldn't too.
>>107880328libreoffice does it all
>>107880143microsoft office doesn't even work on windows>>107880260correct, unless you are the 1% of people who understand how to use access and just jumble all relational data into a spreadsheet and fuck anyone else who needs to use it later on for anything you won't miss using desktop software suite.that is of course unless you are vaguely competent with computers in which case the web versions will push you to the edge of suicide almost immediately.if you don't need any features missing in word online then you might as well use notepad locally.
>>107880319>you can use the webappI won't eat the bugs.
>>107880143onlyoffice flatpak, 1 line in the terminal.or use a VM.
>>107880143can't you run office in a browser nowadays?
>need specific software for your job>use meme os that has none of itehhh
>>107880143you can always dual boot your favorite Linux distro with LUKS encryption and windows LTSC, leaving all the shit that works well on windows in the dedicated windows boot as it should and hopefully turn it into piracy heaven. I used to run linux for programming and shitposting and windows for cad / adobe / music shit and it works fine. Ideally you'll just use the right tool for the job, and since windows and office are so easy to pirate and activate nowadays (>>>/g/fwt) there is little point in just trying to turn linux into a one-size-fits-all solution
>>107880143I thought that shit used to work with wine but it's not like anyone would notice if it stopped working since MS Office is cancer anyway. Basically, I would normally insist on LibreOffice unless your line of work *requires* MS Office.You really want a Wine wrapper app (like the now unmaintained PlayOnLinux) in order to install a Windows application. I asked Gemini to make this table for you so you can see what the typical solutions are.
>>107881075Attempt #2 at a table
>>107880168Compatibility is fine today. LibreOffice's problem today is just the UX.>>107880143Convince your sister to install Linux!
>>107880143Jews
>>107880143Because you didn't fuck your sister.
>>107881287microsoft's proprietary office file formats are such garbage that half the time even other microjeet products can't cope with them (try having a table come out right in the browser version of Word). it's a system DELIBERATELY DESIGNED to fuck over potential competitors and promote vendor lock in. you are the only one to blame for any problems that arise from trying to play their faggy game to begin with.just use od{t,p,s} in your org and you will never need to think about MS Office again. for communication and collaboration between organizations PDFs or webshitter formats are fine. you can usually tell people asking for Office formats to fuck off if they're external, or provide something with busted formatting
>>107880328Sheets is good>but it doesn't open my proprietary garbage file formatthen don't use that file format, retard. Use the native one.If your organization has picked MS Office to use internally then no other system will be a drop-in replacement, that is to be expected. But if you can actually choose there's really no reason to prefer excel over any of the alternatives that isn't just>hurr durr it looks different so it's bad
>>107880328what's wrong with libreoffice calc?
>>107880143You have good taste in women
>>107880143Allow me to interject, what you are referring to as "Microsoft Office" is in fact the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, or as I have taken to calling it, Microsoft 365 + Copilot. Microsoft Office is not a document system unto itself, but rather just another component of a fully integrated generative AI system made useful by the Copilot LLM, Windows utilities, and vital AI components comprising a full user experience as defined by Microsoft.
>>107880143because linux is a server OS.you may as well ask why you can't run a LAMP stack on a playstation 5.
Cara, use outros softwares nativos do linux, muitos de codigo aberto e mais e mais coisas interessantes, respeite o linux nao use lixo de outro OS nele
Didn't they turn office into an agentic webapp?
>>107880143What about 97?
>>107880143There's web alternatives, but libreoffice works flawlessly.>>107880168Lies, or outdated info. Tell us the issue.
>>107880345No. He's right about FOSS being full of cosmetic stuff. There's nothing that replaces Excel. There are lots of clones that look like Excel but load up a non-trivial model and they either shit themselves or output incorrect data. People talk about Office being a big moat for Microsoft but it's really just Excel. There are so many niche features and embedded quirks that no one has even documented them all. If you're a finance company with hundreds of millions of currency units depending on your spreadsheets doing everything right, you don't switch to OpenOffice to save a few bucks on a license and you sure as fuck don't do it for ideological reasons.
>>107882850Last time I checked, their file formats were basically memory dumps of objects in XML. They didn't even have to go out of their way to make them difficult to interoperate with. They simply opened them up and they were already horrific shit. For use by their own programs, that really doesn't matter because everything is in the expected internal memory representation. Competitors would really need to match the internal object model in memory for the formats to work well.
>>107883948Do companies handling that much money really use fucking spreadsheets instead of some more robust system???Makes me scared to invest if they do...
>>107880158Then why does Microsoft Office work on Mac, big brain?
>>107883979Be afraid. Be very afraid. They actually do. It's not the only thing they use but it's blood flow of their systems. And it can have huge consequences. During the Great Recession, an economic model in Excel was used by many western governments to justify enacting austerity programs because that's what the economic model said was best. It wasn't until years later that some curious grad student looked at the model and noticed an error that changed the output. Trillions of government money was allocated improperly due to the error. Mind you, it wasn't an error with Excel itself, it was an error in one of the formulas the model was built upon. They selected the wrong number of cells to apply the formula to, missing five of them.Similar thing happened with the pandemic, though Excel wasn't involved that time. Lots of money and resources are poorly allocated or misdirected because entities that control them are nowhere near as competent as you would expect. And worse, most of the time either no one is checking their work or they're not competent enough to find errors in it.
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>>107884115Weird historical factoid: Office used to be developed on the Mac first and then ported to Windows. This was done in-house at Microsoft so the Mac and Windows versions would usually be released around the same time, but it was the Mac code that was the lead, with Windows being downstream.
>>107884220You literally proved yourself wrong though? The software won’t save you from yourself. Excel isn’t the problem. Replace it by anything else and you’re still vulnerable to user errors >>107883979Excel is ridiculously good. There’s some things I find quite clunky about it, but it’s a very, very good piece of software
>>107880143werks on my machinelinux has it's place, just not on primary machine
>>107880345People that say this don’t actually use excel hard. Like pivot tables, vba, xlookups, etc. Excel is one of the most powerful programs written in the history of humanity and I hope microsoft doesn’t fuck it up. Libeoffice is laggy as shit too
>>107880150t. NEET
>>107880143>>107880264>>107882144I wish my older brother would like me
>>107884292>pivot tables, vba, xlookups,Libreoffice has these built in or via extensions
