ms office 365 which distro can have office

[SnowHopper]

Hiya,

i was just watching the "10 reasons {os_name} is better" this morning and i have been wandering, i personally use Ubuntu as a daily driver since years now and it works just fine for me but my GF (yeah geek with a GF i know not possible) would like to change from windows to something a bit less .. "oh you're working ?? to bad we have to UPDATE NOW". Problem is, she needs the complete office suite every day so i haven't found any distro that could be good for her, do any of you have an idea ??
i already thought of cloud office or WPS but is't not good for what she needs ..

 

thks a lot

[Ashleyyyy]

Ubuntu with a Windows virtual machine for Office? she doesn't need to know how it works if you set it up...

[SnowHopper]

she unfortunatelly is the "it works with a click fine, it doesn't or i find it long, i get pissed"

i'll try with her to see but wouldn't it use to much of the pc ?? she uses big excel matrices etc so she already makes it work a lot

[SnowHopper]

thanks @NZgamer should work fine, i'll have a look

 

[sp331yi]

Or you could install MX Linux, use the smxi script to install Libre Office and tell it to HOLD from updates to LibreOffice.  BTW -- smxi only works with Debian

[Nayr438]

LibreOffice is probably your best bet as far as open-source and compatibility, but only if you can choose a distro or find a repository for a distro that can keep it up to date.

 

For something up to date and user friendly, I would look at Manjaro KDE.

 

If you however need Microsoft Office Apps specifically, I would not recommend running it through wine for reliability reasons. I would instead stick with Windows.

[sp331yi]

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. "oh you're working ?? to bad we have to UPDATE NOW".

 

"up to date" is the problem with LibreOffice -- it updates too often!  Hence the recommendation for a Debian distro Like MX or Solus or others -- one can update and Hold until User wants to update, using smxi!

[sp331yi]

I stand corrected (by myself) -- Solus is no longer Debian.  Kali is, though.

 

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[Nayr438]

56 minutes ago, sp331yi said:

 

"up to date" is the problem with LibreOffice -- it updates too often!  Hence the recommendation for a Debian distro Like MX or Solus or others -- one can update and Hold until User wants to update, using smxi!

Never had an issue with libreoffice-fresh from arch repos. Though they do have a Long Term Branch that updates infrequently, libreoffice-still.

Manjaro uses arch repos but puts Arch Stable into Manjaro Testing for 2 weeks before its pushed out to Manjaro Stable for Users.

 

I have personally run into compatibility issues with LibreOffice on Ubuntu Based Distros, due to it being out of date. I require it for work and found that to be a no go. I don't know about Debian.

 

You can also pick and choose what and when you update. I have never heard of smxi.

 

you can also add it to /etc/pacman.conf

IgnorePkg = libreoffice-still

You would then have to specifically request for it to be updated, as it would be ignored by normal updates.

[sp331yi]

Thanks for the info, Nayr438! 

 

Since  I scarecly use any 'buntus anymore, I was unawares of the problem LibreOffices poses to them. 

 

Also, Arch distros are not my forte.  I am impressed by manjaro, but am too into Debian and in learning Slackware to change!  Lookslike I'm mostly done distro-hopping, for now.