hey so a few months passed since I switch but I’m still a newbie. I’m still a student and I regularly need to use microsoft office apps and for personnal use some other windows specific apps. I tried to use bottles but it never managed to work, the only seblence of it working was with the comicrack installer but that was a window that did nothing. Is there a better way or alternative to bottles or is it just some random settings I need to fix up.
The newest versions of Microsoft Office are notoriously difficult to keep working in Linux. I haven’t tried it, but you might see if winboat works for you.
Alternatively, do you need the full desktop versions? The web versions of most office products are pretty good.
As for other applications, it depends what they are, specifically.
If you have a licensed version of Windows, consider running it in a virtual machine for the few Office or other Windows apps you need.
dont try to push yourself forcefully into linux.. make a slowly transition. be familiar with the alternative app like libre office, mcomix etc. make a habit to use it often until you finally decided to not use windows if this aren’t working dual boot is also an option. I suggest to use flatpak version so it wont messed up with your OS if you decide to uninstall apps later. you can visit flathub to browse alternative apps. Although wine/bottles are OK but not a 100% that it works though.. unless your are that type of person thinkering much
This exactly.
Look at ExplainingComputers by Christopher Barnatt: search for Windows in Linux.
I have access to the latest versions (uni gives us full access) but I have the older 2016 versions on some CD at home I think
I currently use onlyoffice and I tried libreoffice before, they do the job but sometimes I get some compatibility issues with docs we get and things we have to send. I tried to run winboat once but it didn’t really work for me, I’ll try it again and see how it goes
You may just want to keep trying this from time to time as it is currently in beta.
I think however as others have said running in a virtual machine may be the best way for you to get it to work properly if you don’t want to use the online versions.
Have you tried the web versions?
They are quite good as long as you don’t need something they don’t support like connecting to a local database.