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?

Edit: 2024/12/26 I ended up using Windows inside KVM. It worked without license, and office seems to work fine

  • MyNameIsRichard
    9·
    1 month ago

    Onlyoffice is said to have better compatibility with MS Office so that may be worth a try.

      • Vittelius@feddit.org
        12·
        1 month ago

        It’s actually not. It’s open core (a.k.a. 80% open source with its AGPL licenced community edition and proprietary with the enterprise edition that adds a bunch of stuff on top)

        • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
          5·
          1 month ago

          “open core” is pretty much “proprietary, but we won’t call it like that, we will also sue you if you use our code”

      • MyNameIsRichard
        2·
        1 month ago

        I thought it was open but I could be wrong looking at their website it says the code is available on github