Show HN: Microsoft Office Running with Wine on Linux with No Virtualization

Category: devtools

Tags: nix, wine, microsoft-office, umu-launcher, proton, linux

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 9, Documentation: 8, Utility: 5)

A Nix flake that runs Microsoft 365 (Office) on Linux via umu-launcher with GE-Proton or Bottles' ProtoSoda, using custom Wine shims (sppc, ole32, d2d1) to work around missing Windows APIs. It documents an impressive reverse-engineering effort to get click-to-run Office working without a VM, though sign-in and activation remain unsolved.

Target audience: Linux desktop power users and Nix enthusiasts

Repository: https://github.com/Tombert/office365_flake · C · 44 stars

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