eylenburg

Step by step guide: How to install Microsoft Office 2016 in any Linux distribution

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

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

1. Winapps, based on KVM, QEMU, Virt-Manager, and FreeRDP. Still actively maintained (getting Github commits).
2. Cassowary, based on KVM, QEMU, 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 for me it was quite buggy and when I encounterd some (FreeRDP-related?) bug in both Winapps and Cassowary that meant I could only start Excel with an external screen plugged in, I gave up. bug

themagicalmammal

Index

• Gummiboot
• Silent Grub
• Turn off Mitigations
• Disable Watchdog
• Kernel Parameters
• Fstab Modification
• Optimizing Boot
• Fix bad font rendering
• Getting rid of unnecessary packages

RobinCPC

Install Wine with Mono & Gecko in Ubuntu 20.04

Warning: Do not try those command in your main PC, I test in a virtual Machine

Note: Most of commands are from the Dockerfile in Reference section. If you want to test wine, just run their docker container

1. Setup PPA

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -

Liblor

#!/usr/bin/bash

# Volume notification: Pulseaudio and dunst
# inspired by gist.github.com/sebastiencs/5d7227f388d93374cebdf72e783fbd6a


icon_path=/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/64x64/status/
notify_id=506
sink_nr=1   # use `pacmd list-sinks` to find out sink_nr

SidharthArya

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys
import json
import subprocess

direction=bool(sys.argv[1] == 't' or sys.argv[1] == 'T')
swaymsg = subprocess.run(['swaymsg', '-t', 'get_tree'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
data = json.loads(swaymsg.stdout)
current = data["nodes"][1]["current_workspace"]

MIvanchev

Running Windows software on the Raspberry Pi (and other ARM devices) with Wine

Contents

• Introduction
• Configuring a 3G/1G VM split (32-bit distros only)
• Installing Wine
  • Building Wine
• Running Windows software
• Build using Winelib

openfirmware

QEMU Mac OS 9 Instructions

Here is a short guide on how to build QEMU to run Mac OS 9 with working audio. These instructions work for MacOS High Sierra as the host OS, although with some tweaking they may run under Linux/Windows. You should be comfortable compiling software from source before attempting.

Clone QEMU fork

Adapted from instructions from Cat_7

You may need to install XCode and/or the XCode command line tools. If you do not have them, then this process may prompt you to install them (MacOS will do that).

jerodg

Microsoft Windows and Office KMS Setup

darencard

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# gdrive_download
#
# script to download Google Drive files from command line
# not guaranteed to work indefinitely
# taken from Stack Overflow answer:
# http://stackoverflow.com/a/38937732/7002068

gURL=$1

caseywatts

short url to these instructions: caseywatts.com/darken

Other gists & tricks: http://caseywatts.com/gists-and-tricks

Using Monochrome (recommended)

• obtain your ugly, gray pdf
• brew install imagemagick
• brew install ghostscript
• magic command!