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I want to get word, excel, powerpoint, onedrive and copilot on ubuntu, anyone know how?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Another person already answered about the office apps so I won't mention it. What I know is that the most recent version of GNOME has OneDrive support so Ubuntu 24.04 should have it. Copilot is impossible to get. Also if you use the Microsoft suite, you probably should be running Windows. There's not that much point in switching to Linux in this case

[–] swooosh 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Linux is not only about privacy. It's primarily about freedom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

the most recent version of GNOME has OneDrive support

Just to check, do you mean the Microsoft version of Onedrive, or the abraunegg Linux version?

Abraunegg's version is brilliant, but the MS version would make my life easier :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is the Gnome Online Accounts version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks :)

I take it that's a third party client that syncs with MS Onedrive?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Correct, it is one of multiple that are available, it just happens to be built into Gnome. It also syncs with Google Drive and some others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Ah, I know the one. I've used it for Google Drive in the past. I didn't know it could do Onedrive too though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I didn't understand the question. Afaik there is no official OneDrive app for Linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A developer, Abraunegg, has made a Linux tool that syncs a Microsoft Onedrive account with a Linux system, in the same way that the Microsoft Onedrive tool does on Windows. They've named their tool Onedrive too.

I didn't know if you were talking about Microsoft Onedrive compatibility in Gnome, or Abraunegg's Onedrive. It gets a bit confusing when they both have the same name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't remember hearing anything about the Abraunegg's version so I think GNOME made their own implementation or used another base

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That makes sense, thanks :)