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I moved to Linux in early 2019 and was surprised that I barely needed Windows anymore. I was already using Libre Office so Ms Office wasn't a sticking point for me. I assume you tried Libre office and its probably not compatible enough for you.

Ms Office is very compatible with Wine - even the newer ones. The only problems seem to be with apps were direct replacements like Skype or are irrelevant like OneDrive.

For setting up wine and managing my apps I use Lutris. It is meant for games but is brilliant for setting up windows apps as well. I wish they would acknowledge that fact in their UI but it doesn't bother me too much that everything is called a game.



I didn't enjoy Libre Office, largely due to the functionality being too low. I work with Excel spreadsheets with lots of macros and formulae, which doesn't port well over to Libre Office.


I can understand this, I make do with Google sheets but it's seriously limited with my bigger spreadsheets, especially if there is lots of custom code / API response parsing involved.




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