Hey does anyone know how to get microsoft suite apps on linux?

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I want to get word, excel, powerpoint, onedrive and copilot on ubuntu, anyone know how?

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Web apps

Seconding this, webapp-manager is what linux mint comes with and is the best option so far

I also saw someone on YouTube launching Word via wine so I guess it's also an option

According to the official AppDB in winehq.org, getting this to work seems to be strongly dependent on the specific version.

PlayOnLinux takes care of it for you. Office 2013 supposedly works very well, Office 2016 can be sometimes buggy. For the 2016 version you need to get the 32 bit iso.

I think I saw Word 2010 running. Idk about other versions

2010 is EOL

I've never seen any issues with it. People here used MS Office 2007 until like 2019. It should be fine as long as it supports docx and the document doesn't have complicated scripts (which nobody uses here so can't tell about them)

That's is a bad idea as the old Office doesn't receive security patches

I still use Office 97 and 2000. Works fine for what I need

Still a bad idea. I didn't say they didn't work what I said is that it is a major security risk. There are people who still run Windows XP and it works for them. However, it is also a security risk.