![]() ![]() PlayOnLinux asks the user to provide the installation file. Read the directions and select the “Next” button to be brought to the next part of the installer. ![]() This brings up a Windows-like installation wizard. What follows is a warning that “this program is currently in testing.” This means that the PlayOnLinux profile for Office 2013 is under testing and may experience some hiccups. Within the results, select “Microsoft Office 2013” and then the “Install” button. Each result is an installation profile, and once the user clicks on one, PlayOnLinux will create a Wine environment and walk through the installation process. Searching for this term brings up several versions of Microsoft Office. In the search area, type “Microsoft Office.” After you click it, what follows is a window with a search box. The only one that matters at the moment is the “Install” button. Inside PlayOnLinux there are many different buttons and options. ![]() Sudo apt install playonlinux Using PlayOnLinux to install Microsoft Office Install it by opening your package manager or software store and searching for “playonlinux” or from the terminal (in Ubuntu): The PlayOnLinux tool is available in most modern Linux distribution package repositories. Basically it’s a tool that takes the underlying technology of Wine and adds some easy-to-use GUI tools for installing a myriad of Windows-based games and even programs (like MS Office). It is a “wine wrapper” and makes things easier. Though, for many new Linux users, Wine can be tedious and irritating to use without any direction. With enough effort and Wine tinkering, anyone can get a Windows program up and running on Linux. Using the Wine tools to get Windows programs is not a difficult process. Make sure to download only the 32-bit version, even if your system is 64-bit. This is because Office 2016 does not work well with Wine. Go to this link, make a Microsoft account (or log in), and download the Office 2013 program. Microsoft Office 2013 is what this tutorial will focus on. In this article we’ll cover the easiest way to get Microsoft Office on your Linux machine. This is a multi-billion dollar company, there is no excuse for such incompetence.Over the years there have been many different ways to get Microsoft Office working. More importantly, leadership is still responsible for setting irrational environment that lead to Superfish, whatever that environment was. Even in the most generous understanding where IdeaPad is a different, physically separate branch of the company, and Superfish was an act of incompetence and not outright malice I can't be expected to keep up with the insider intrigue of the company to notice any changes that could negatively affect me. I can't know that whatever harmful and irrational environment that led to Superfish in IdeaPad won't affect ThinkPads in the future. I'll copy a response I provided two months ago as Lenovo on HN has become a seriously annoying groundhog day for me: > All this is moot, when you put Linux on it, which was the context we were talking about. Windows isn't a free for all platform, yet. It does, but those are "theoretical" in comparison to the degree Lenovo stooped on, it doesn't excuse Superfish at all. > In the end, these devices do ship with Windows, which has privacy problems anyway. I primarily use a Mac but have been playing with/arguing about Linux for 20 years - going back to when I was 15 years old. These are my thoughts and do not represent those of others. *Disclosure: I work at Microsoft on Azure. I would posit that the vast majority of developers and end-users who access and use Linux on a daily basis are doing it at least in part through a cloud service - whether its a cheap VPS or a large cluster of machines. Let's call it 15 years ago), but that is certainly not the case now.Īnd frankly, I think putting Linux users in a box where only FOSS drivers are allowed (even though Nvidia GPUs are doing much of the best work for CUDA) and to use it you have to be lock-step with an ideology that very few people will ever be able to be "pure" enough to follow completely (assuming they want to follow that ideology in the first place), does the Linux ecosystem a major disservice. You may have been able to get away with that kind of broad generalization a decade ago (actually mo - that's not true, AWS and Canonical's push to cloud started MORE than a decade ago. >Linux users often choose Linux because they want to be in control of their data and devices, cloud services are about giving control of that away to companies. ![]()
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