MS Office 2010 under archlinux amd64(Wine)?

archer42 · 2011-12-03 19:03:20

Hi,

MS Office 2010 and some games are the last reason why I have Windows on my computer.

Is Office 2010 already ported to wine or do they still are having some problems?

Regards

Mavirick · 2011-12-03 19:17:42

You might want to go and look at the AppDB at www.winehq.org and look at their database.

archer42 · 2011-12-03 19:26:18

No wine still only support office to an half and to get there is a lot of work.

esdaniel · 2011-12-03 20:12:42

If you've got the necessary hardware spec then it's probably going to be easier to run a virtualbox vm of windows and use that to host the work apps as well as access your underlying physical filesystem from within the vm effortlessly - for windows games I'm still dual-booting into OS on physical host.

jaco · 2011-12-03 20:14:56

Just for the record: what is the problem with Libre Office?

esdaniel · 2011-12-03 20:23:57

jaco wrote:

Just for the record: what is the problem with Libre Office?

In my case... when I'm not having to work with other users of MS Office possessing existing investment in the office formats (templates, code etc.) that can and sometimes break when being interchanged with other tools like Libre/OpenOffice then there is no problem and LibreOffice is my preferred tool.

twelveeighty · 2011-12-03 23:29:36

I'm not sure about Office 2010, but I'm running Office 2003 on Crossover - in my view Crossover is the best "paid software" I've ever bought.

As for LibreOffice - I use it as well. As long as you install all the vista and Windows fonts, you can edit most documents and keep them interchangeable with those Windows victims out there, but I do have to resort to MS Office on Crossover once in a while.

archer42 · 2011-12-04 06:35:13

Libreoffice ist fine no question..
But they're missing some indispensable options/tools at basic like special pasting, headlines. Surely you can make this also with Libreoffice but it isn't as nice.

In my opionion Libreoffice should stop wasting so much time by trying to hold a compatiblity at Office 2003 (the compatibility with 2007 and later just includes the content not any layout...) which isn't a compatibility at all and start to add some features which really make working easier and faster.
But at the moment Libreoffice is "just" a office suit which creeps 6 years behing M$. I hope this will change after freeing up from Oracle and with the hopefully coming up UI.

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jaco · 2011-12-04 11:42:00

For my own, i'm rather glad that LO keeps some compatibility with MS Office as it allows me to use LO to do my job and to send it to my contractors (who need .doc files).

I'm speaking of books of 300 pages, with a fixed stylesheet (written in Word by my contractor), index, revision marks and so on... All is fine as long we avoid .docx format.

gerald82 · 2011-12-05 07:39:40

esdaniel wrote:

If you've got the necessary hardware spec then it's probably going to be easier to run a virtualbox vm of windows and use that to host the work apps as well as access your underlying physical filesystem from within the vm effortlessly - for windows games I'm still dual-booting into OS on physical host.

I do it exactly this way, too. Works very well for me except for some minor glitches in seemless mode that are probably caused by desktop compositing.

jaco wrote:

Just for the record: what is the problem with Libre Office?

I use mainly Powerpoint or Impress respectively.
And for those users that like a little "decoration" in their slides and illustrations (such as gentle gradients, for instance), working with Powerpoint is way, way more fluent and takes far less than half the time than when working with LibreOffice for achieving the same result. I realize it can be done with LO, too, but at least to me it is just so much more cumbersome.

Also, I'm looking forward to see how good the Calligra Suite will turn out to be in a few releases.

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