On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@gmail.com> wrote:
I have better success by not using Wine to run MS Office in linux. I suggest installing the linux version of wps-office using the one click install. I use the one provided by home:opensuse_zh
http://software.opensuse.org/package/wps-office?search_term=wps-office
If I need to use MS Office in linux, I run it in some version of windows in VirtualBox in my opensuse system. I use it every month this way to produce a newsletter using MS Word and Adobe Acrobat.
I have never had very good success using Wine or its commercial equivalent to run MS programs in Linux dependably. You describe your Wine setup as "almost working," I can say that has been the state of Wine for the last 10 years or so.
Have to +1 this. If you're facing a vendor lock and you are the only one in your team using linux you cannot rely on wine, even if it does not crash on you. The fonts, the metrics, the locale, NTLM auth, at least something but will go wrong, even after you install and use it for some time. I had to create a VM in virtualbox and enable RDP there to allow our admins to install corporate version of Windows and Outlook there, it is enough for 32-bit Windows XP to have 256 MB RAM, so should not be a problem if you have 32GB on your desktop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org