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Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization

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Microsoft Office famously hasn't worked well with Wine since Office 2007. There are lots of solutions out there to work around this, but all of them involve fairly heavy virtualization. Multiple people have told me that their biggest hangup for switching to Linux from Windows is the lack of the des…

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  1. 2026-09-17 20:52 · Hacker News Front Page
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