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Microsoft Office famously hasn&#x27;t worked well with Wine since Office 2007. There are lots of solutions out there to work around this, but all of them involve fairly heavy virtualization.<p>Multiple people have told me that their biggest hangup for switching to Linux from Windows is the lack of the desktop version of Microsoft Office, and they don&#x27;t want to run a VM to get around it.<p>I recently fell into a bunch of free time with a Claude Max subscription, so I got Fable to hack at this until it worked! And with this, we have Microsoft Office running on Linux, with no Windows in sight!<p>I can&#x27;t promise that this will work on everyone&#x27;s computer, <i>but</i> I did put this all in Nix Flakes, so ideally it should be relatively reproducible on any Linux system with the Nix package manager and Flakes enabled. Also, it does <i>not</i> work very well with X, but Wayland appears to work fine.<p>This is not warez. You need a valid license for Office 365 for this to work.

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