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I was looking at something similar (CodeWeavers?) and it seems the latest version of Office that runs well was Office 2016.
I will have to take a look at WinApps.
Communication stuff (email, calendar, teams) is actually one area where I do use MS web apps and they work fine for those use cases.
Ah yes, CodeWeavers CrossOver, yeah it’s essentially a customized and paid version of Wine, though I haven’t seen people have much more luck with it than just using latest standard Wine, but I’ve never tried it. When I tried various versions of Office directly in Wine, I ran across all kinds of installer and DLL issues, sadly.
I’m far from an expert, but here are links to WinApps and WinBoat (very similar solution):
Cheers, I will test them out when I get my new laptop with dual SSDs!
Nice, sounds good, good luck with it!