Are there good Microsoft word alternatives that support Linux (I don’t mind closed source)? Libreoffice is meh and only office is quite good, but are there any better ones? Also, is there a way to install word on Linux using wine? When I do that my laptop just overheats and loses internet connection.

  • ChiefSinner@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If libre/open office isn’t your thing, there’s always cloud based ones like office365 and google docs.

    I also found this. Never heard of some of these things, so I can’t really recommend them.

    https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-alternatives-linux/

    You can also use ms word in wine if you’re writing. However; if you’re opening docs from the internet, I wouldn’t recommend opening them up in anything running in wine. Remember, wine is a windows emulator based on windows 2000.

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      Wine is not a Windows emulator. The name literally means “Wine Is Not an Emulator”.

      It’s also not based on Windows 2000. In fact, it started out translating syscalls from Windows 3.1.

      The syscalls themselves are pretty stable between Windows versions, which is why you can run a Windows XP application on Windows 11 without recompiling it, as long as it’s for the same architecture.