So, at school we use the whole Office 365 suite for a myriad of tasks.

Teams is used as the main way to share exercises and lesson material, Outlook is used as the resident email service, and you’re expected to use OneDrive to store all/most of your data. There are some additional apps that require Windows, but beyond the office 365 suite they are all replaceable.

What I’m wondering is, what distro can run/access those apps without too much hassle and set-up?

I’m looking to do this on a HP probook x360, upgraded to 32 GB of ram. The only peripheral of note I’ve got is a Ugee drawing tablet, but I can use the openTabletDriver or their own on some distro’s.

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
    7·
    6 months ago
    1. Install the user Flatpak for Teams
    2. Log into your OneDrive online account, use the file manager plugin for the files
    3. Use any mail client you like for the e-mail, Thunderbird for example works fine
    4. Use the web version of Office, sadly
    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      32·
      6 months ago

      The web version of office is very bad and mostly unusable. You can supplement it with libreoffice but that sounds like it isn’t an option.

      • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
        2·
        6 months ago

        In my experience it’s most of the installed version of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It’s leagues above Google Docs.

        While the web suite is not as feature rich as the installed version or as LibreOffice, I’ve experienced some compatibility issues between LibreOffice and MS Office. (but most importantly, their school requires MS Office)

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
          11·
          6 months ago

          No offense to you but I call BS. Since when is some random product leagues better for every use case.

          If you don’t want to learn something new I can respect that. However, Microsoft isn’t God

          • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
            2·
            6 months ago

            I agree, I actually prefer LibreOffice in most cases, especially Calc. I wouldn’t require a class to all use the same product under the illusion that it’s the only good one.

            That said, I’ve had LibreOffice Writer’s .docx files show different styling when opened by MS Word and vice versa, so in the context of MS Office being required by OP’s school, I recommend MS Office online as I’ve had good experience with that.