_comfortablyAverage_Aug 4, 2023

Pirating Microsoft Office 2019 on Linux?

https://lemmy.ml/post/2792492

Pirating Microsoft Office 2019 on Linux? - Lemmy

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?

Show threadVonRepostiAug 4, 2023
Thismight be a stupid question but now that you’re on Linux, why not use something like LibreOffice or Collabora?
Show thread_comfortablyAverage_Aug 4, 2023

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

Show threadAnders429Aug 4, 2023

it can fuck up microsoft office formatted documents.

The problem there is not with LibreOffice, but with Microsoft Office. They do not implement the format standard correctly.

Not that it eliminated your problem, but it’s important to understand who the real culprit is and why.

Show threadTheYang

They do not implement the format standard correctly.

I think it’s also important to mention, that they wrote the standard themselves (after being forced to)

Aug 4, 2023 at 9:54amWeb