If you're looking for applications, CodeWeavers' Crossover Office is the place to go. If you actually can't afford it, you can use plain WINE. But Crossover is nicer, has support, and funds WINE development, since CodeWeavers sends their patches upstream.

https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover

Will desktop excel actually run smoothly on this? It's been ages since I've tried, but I didn't have much luck in the past.

I'd really love to ditch my windows machine, but my employer makes use of excel plugins that only run on the desktop version.

Looks like it's changed a lot. It looks like it was good until about 2010, then it stopped working. Might also be why they apparently renamed it to "Crossover" from "Crossover Office." Guess I'm really out of date here. :)

Wait, maybe I was looking at _Mac_ compatibility. It looks like 365 runs decently on Linux.

They have a site you can check compatibility at: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/microsof... is the page for MS Office 365.

You can download a free trial and see if it works.

Thanks for the update! I'll give the free trial a shot when I get some free time.

If you restrict yourself to older office versions like e.g. 2013, they should be working fine with vanilla wine. At least I remember running Word seamlessly on my gnome desktop. I even created a „desktop“ file so I could double click on word files to fire up Word.

I recommend using the „play4linux“ fronted to wine which makes it rather easy to install and maintain windows applications and games.

You’re looking for wine https://www.winehq.org/. Proton is built on top of wine.

Excel and Word in Office 2016 work pretty well in Crossover. (I don't know about the newer versions.)