"Microsoft Office Home & Student 2010" on Linux under Wine

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Hey!
In connection with the work, it became necessary to install "Microsoft Office for Home and Student 2010" on Linux (Linux), which includes Word, Excel, Power Point, OneNote. For work, you mainly need Word and Excel. I know about LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org, the latter is set as the default office. But all the same, compatibility issues make you think about buying an office from Microsoft. I will clarify that the purchase of Windows OS is not expected. I am just getting acquainted with Lincuses, I tried Runtu, Linux Mint, there is also the latest version of Ubuntu in stock. PC Pentium-4, RAM 384 MB (not yet possible to buy), so for now I think what to put finally, about XFCE and LXDE and generally lightweight in Linux I know, now I'm looking for a suitable option. But of course, it is more important to install and successfully launch the office for work, speed is in second place (especially since the office is not graphics or video), so any Linux is interesting. Googling, I came to the Wine compatibility page:all versions of office and the one I need . As you can see, successful options for Office 2010 (32 bit) were obtained with Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) + Wine 1.3.10, as well as openSUSE 11.1 + Wine 1.3.9. Both options were rated Bronze. It can be assumed that progress does not stand still and that instead of Ubuntu 10.10 in a bundle of Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" + Wine 1.3.10, it is theoretically possible to install the latest Ubuntu or other Linuxes close to it (the same, recently updated Linux Mint).

Actually questions:
1) Somebody put this office on Linux under Wine, how successfully? What software configurations? Were there any problems with the work in general, with the activation of the license from under Wine?
2) Some offtopic: the site says about this office that the trial period is 60 days. From the description, you can understand that it seems like the office is attached to the computer, i.e. to iron. It is very interesting if you install and activate the trial version of the office on one Linux, and there it does not run normally, is it possible to demolish it along with the system and re-install it on another Linux? What will happen to the 60-day trial period, will the timer restart? In general, is the office really tied to the hardware and what about the trial period?
3) Another very interesting question. As you know, Unixes do not need antiviruses, but it is also known that all sorts of harmful substances often get into Windows OS through Microsoft Word documents. At work, almost no one cares, and so do I, but I don’t want the infected docks, while working on them in the office on my home PC through Wine, to go anywhere in my Linux and not to manage, not to get into my personal life . Those. copied the documents from the USB flash drive to a strictly defined folder on the PC, worked, transferred the result back to the USB flash drive (and deleted the files from the computer) in order to bring it to work tomorrow, while no anomalies will occur on my PC under Linux, despite the fact that that all working documents are most often infected. In general, I’m just not special here, I don’t care that the docks at work are infected,

Opinions, experience of installations are very interesting, maybe there are some other solutions, how to run office 2010 on Linux and how to make it safer, maybe there are completely different solutions? In addition to the office itself, of course, free software is desirable.

The required office is not in the CrossOver list . In PlayOnLinux too.

Answer 1

Googling, I came to the Wine compatibility page: all versions of office and the one I need. As you can see, successful options for Office 2010 (32 bit) were obtained with Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) + Wine 1.3.10, as well as openSUSE 11.1 + Wine 1.3.9. Both options were rated Bronze.

You have provided links to the Wine compatibility page with the office installer. The 2010s Word and Excel themselves have a Garbage status:
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=22248
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=22304

Answer 2

Why don't you try a slightly outdated office? 2003 at least? And there will be no problem with memory.
And by the way, why did you reject OpenOffice/LibreOffice so quickly? Maybe Word 200x Compatibility Mode is enough for your work?
And I’m not even talking about tables, there are probably no compatibility problems at all.
Although I really didn’t like the analogue of PowerPoint from OO.
Moreover, why not translate the workflow to Google Docs? But there is still LatTeX (a million times better than Word and there are no compatibility problems). In short, think twice before spending your hard-earned money.

Answer 3

I couldn’t start it a year ago, I crashed on the installation.
2007 office was fine.

Answer 4

It is unlikely that you will be able to run Office through Wine, especially 2010, especially without lags. Too many dependencies, features it uses. As an option - installation on VirtualBox, in Office from under it you can work quite comfortably.
Together with *.doc, *.docx-documents, macro viruses can spread. I have not yet met a single “intelligent” one, and they definitely cannot harm Linux. In addition, it is possible to allow execution of only signed macros (which, in principle, is done by default).

Answer 5

As far as I understand, with VirtualBox it is possible to run primarily Windows itself, but not Office itself on Linux under VirtualBox? Somehow I need it without Windows. As for macro viruses - ok, I remembered (I just used the office a little before), I think about other viruses that may be on a flash drive, you can not think at all when working under Linux. Of course, it’s hard to imagine what kind of lags these could be, but I need Word and Excel for simple office work, not working in the editorial office of a magazine - something the most common. No, all enterprises and institutions would not want to switch to open offices at once, no, you have to spend money every time on a new one and sit under WinXP.

Answer 6

Cool. Those. if by copying - will it work better? Do you have such experience? This means that you need to install the office on another PC, on a licensed Windows, activate it there in a trial license (later activate the purchased license), then copy the entire office directory to a PC with Linux, demolish the office on Windows and I will be 'licensed happiness' on Linux?

Answer 7

You wrote:
“you need to edit to sit, and every time you do double work, it’s not very convenient to understand formatting tricks” - so can you just stop indenting with spaces?

Answer 8

They suggested an interesting link - a script for office 2010 in playonlinux , looked at their forum , the topic was not disclosed.