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Step by step guide: How to install Microsoft Office in any Linux distribution

There are multiple options how to install MS Office on Linux.

VM-based - Integrate Windows apps running in a Windows virtual machine as native-looking in Linux

Winapps, based on KVM, QEMU, Docker/Podman and FreeRDP. Still actively maintained (getting Github commits). Decribed below
Cassowary, based on KVM, QEMU, libvirt/virt-manager, and FreeRDP. Has a helpful GUI and apparently can auto-suspend the VM when no Windows app is in use. Last release in Feb 2022 and seems to be abandoned.

The VM-based options means can run Office 2021 or Office 365 including all apps, but while the Windows apps themselves run flawlessly (as they're running on real Windows) there's various freerdp-related bugs you may encounter.

Running Windows 10/11 Guest with GPU Passthrough using laptop running Fedora

Abstract

This is a full guide for people who wanted to set up Windows 10/11 VM with QEMU/KVM hypervisor enhancements for a laptop that is configured with hybrid graphics card like Intel/AMD + NVIDIA. This process will take about 1 to 2 hours, depending on your system's performance and your patience =)

There is another comprehensive guide you can follow here (shoutout to asus-linux team who made supergfxctl which is a very important tool for this guide). It is more up-to-date than mine. I would probably incorporate those information into my guide, but you are welcome to use this one as a reference!

Before we proceed:

This guide is exclusively for Fedora users because this distro is quite different to set up than other distro such as Arch. I would say Arch is easier to setup than Fedora, but sometimes you like to use Fedora than Arc

My Fedora Silverblue 40 Setup

selinux, zstd, flatpak, layered, thinkfan, thinkpad t430, thinkpad t480, tailscale, vscode, nix, rpm-fusion, disable network connectivity check, battery charge threshold, firefox, gnome, nautilus, gnome-terminal, boxes, celluloid, declarative system changes

Change zstd compression version 1 to 3

With kickstarter while install

https://github.com/queeup/silverblue-kickstarter

mkdir isobuild && cd isobuild
sudo dnf install rpm-ostree lorax -y
git clone -b f33 https://pagure.io/workstation-ostree-config
git clone -b f33 https://pagure.io/fedora-lorax-templates.git
mkdir repo
ostree init --repo=repo
rpm-ostree compose tree --repo=$(pwd)/repo \
	$(pwd)/workstation-ostree-config/fedora-silverblue.yaml

ZSH (using Oh My ZSH) on Manjaro Linux

0. If `ZSH` is not already installed on your Manjaro system you can do it with the command:

sudo pacman -Syu zsh

You do not need to install manjaro-zsh-config and all the other related packages like zsh-syntax-highlighting, zsh-history-substring-search, zsh-autosuggestions, etc., as we will use Oh My Zsh.

Made possible with this reddit post.

Install

wine regedit wine-breeze-dark.reg

Uninstall (Reset Wine color scheme)

wine regedit wine-reset-theme.reg

Install softwares

sudo pacman -S qemu python python-pip
sudo pacman -S qemu virt-manager virt-viewer dnsmasq vde2 bridge-utils openbsd-netcat
sudo pacman -S ebtables iptables
sudo systemctl enable libvirtd.service
sudo systemctl restart libvirtd.service
sudo virsh net-start default

	<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
	<fontconfig>
	<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
	<!--
	Documented at
	http://linux.die.net/man/5/fonts-conf

	To check font mapping run the command at terminal
	$ fc-match 'helvetica Neue'

	general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.continuousMotionMaxDeltaMS;250

	general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.enabled;true

	general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.motionBeginSpringConstant;450

	general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.regularSpringConstant;450

	general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.slowdownMinDeltaMS;50

	sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y
	sudo apt -y install build-essential wget curl gcc make wget tzdata git libreadline-dev libncurses-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev

	sudo wget https://www.softether-download.com/files/softether/v4.41-9787-rtm-2023.03.14-tree/Linux/SoftEther_VPN_Server/64bit_-_Intel_x64_or_AMD64/softether-vpnserver-v4.41-9787-rtm-2023.03.14-linux-x64-64bit.tar.gz
	tar xzf softether-vpnserver-v4.41-9787-rtm-2023.03.14-linux-x64-64bit.tar.gz && rm softether-vpnserver-v4.41-9787-rtm-2023.03.14-linux-x64-64bit.tar.gz

	cd vpnserver && sudo make
	cd ..
	sudo mv vpnserver /usr/local && cd /usr/local/vpnserver/
	sudo chmod 600 *