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Linux Applications & Android apps / Run Microsoft Office 365 on Li...

Last post by fox - Today at 02:43:06 PM

You can now do this with Crossover Linux; I used the current version (24.05). I tried it with a standard Microsoft Office 365 and with the University version of it. Both worked. I did it on Ubuntu 22.04, but to get the university edition, I had to go to my university website, download the installer on a PC, and copy it to my Ubuntu partition. (If you try to do this from a Linux partition, you won't get the option to download the PC installer and of course there is no Linux installer.) Crossover Linux has an automated installation process for Office 365; you search for the program and when it comes up, you have the option to install it. Click on the installer (Setup.exe file) and it does the installation automatically. It downloads some necessary PC files first, including fonts, and then the files of Office 365. With the university version, you can actually sign on from your university ID, and it remembers this. On my university website, it shows this installation as one of the five I'm allowed.

I haven't tried a lot of its functions yet, and I only tried Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The review functions on Word work.

All of this is big news because Codeweaver only recently figured out how to get Office 365 to work on their Crossover program. The overall program get 4 out of 5 stars for functionality, which applies to Word and Excel. Powerpoint only gets 3 stars.

I actually installed it for fun to see if it works. When I need MS Office, I use Office 2010, which I own and it is pretty reliable.

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Support / Re: Running a Virtual Linux Ma...

Last post by Jason - Today at 04:09:57 AM

Hackintosh is term that specifically refers to running the Mac OS on a PC computer.

I realize that. However, a VM client typically emulates a PC environment (the machine doesn't know that it's not a PC). So I thought it could be a way to get the Mac OS as a VM on a Linux host. But Hyper-V does it a different way, I believe. I don't think it emulates a PC environment. It uses the existing OS environment but in isolation. You could use the Mac alongside a PC with Linux and use a KVM to avoid rebooting. That's what I was looking at.

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Distributions / Re: Latest Linux Mint Upgrade ...

Last post by Jason - Today at 03:53:22 AM

I still have a partition with Mint 21.3. I have a backup of it with TimeShift, but not a specific backup of my Home folder. (Note that the Home folder is not on a separate partition.) Can I then go to the Mint 22 partition (also without the Home folder on a separate partition) and restore just the Home folder from Mint 21.3? If not, what if I made a backup of just the Home folder on Mint 23 with a program like Backup? Could I then "restore" that folder in Mint 22?

I believe so. Your backup of /home will copy over the existing files in /home So settings will be replaced, too, unless you choose just your files. Since files will have permissions intact, you should create an account with the same username. But you can fix this later if necessary. Let me know if you have permission issues after restoring or if stuff doesn't have the proper settings, etc. It could be a permission issue.

I believe I can back up that Home folder with software called Backup?

Yep. But you will have to use that program to restore it as well. It zips the files and breaks them into chunks so you can't copy them back using the file manager. If you don't need the files to be compressed, it's probably easier to copy the files as is to a flash drive. Once you're set back up, use it to back up the personal folder regularly. It can do it automatically if you leave a flash drive inserted. It's incremental so it's fast. Unless you change a lot of big files a lot.

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Politics, Society and News. / Re: Harris-Trump post-debate r...

Last post by Jason - Today at 03:30:57 AM

I agree, Fox.

I was looking at the 2020 numbers and interestingly, there is the same gap between Harris and Trump now as there was on election day between Trump and Biden. But there are fewer of what they considered battleground states now. So the effect of that this time (assuming it holds), I don't know. I don't get why the US seems to do so few polls in the battleground states since that's where it's all decided.

But then again, you could say the same about Canada, maybe worse. We don't do provincial polling in federal elections. However, the election is usually decided by a minority of provinces, the biggest and the most swing provinces: Ontario, Quebec, and BC. And to a worse extent, you don't even have to get 50% to get a province, unlike the US. Well, at least close to 50%. You can win a majority government with only 40% of the vote even if that's only in Ontario Quebec (200 of 343 seats).

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Support / Re: "Clean install" of Mint 22

Last post by Jason - Today at 02:25:40 AM

" A fresh install is going to overwrite the entire partition including/home."

Pretty sure this isn't totally true. If /home is a separate partition, and you use exactly the same partitions, you can save some stuff by not formatting this partition. Only allow / and swap to be formatted. Did this a few times with Mint.

I said "partition" not "partitions". Note the singular use. Since I said the single partition "including /home" then I'm saying it will wipe it out if /home is on there. That's entirely true. Had I said the plural version, you would have been right to correct me. And Fox also noted /home wasn't on a separate partition in his first post.

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Support / Re: "Clean install" of Mint 22

Last post by buster - September 15, 2024, 11:28:51 AM

"Home is not in a separate partition."

Ah well.

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Support / Re: "Clean install" of Mint 22

Last post by fox - September 15, 2024, 10:14:15 AM

Home is not in a separate partition.

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Support / Re: "Clean install" of Mint 22

Last post by buster - September 15, 2024, 07:56:22 AM

" A fresh install is going to overwrite the entire partition including/home."

Pretty sure this isn't totally true. If /home is a separate partition, and you use exactly the same partitions, you can save some stuff by not formatting this partition. Only allow / and swap to be formatted. Did this a few times with Mint.

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Politics, Society and News. / Re: Harris-Trump post-debate r...

Last post by fox - September 15, 2024, 07:41:13 AM

I think we'll have a better idea of the impact of that debate in polls that come out this week. I have no doubt that it helped Harris, even in the battleground states, but I doubt if it was enough to put any one of those states past a virtual tie. Still, it put her more firmly one the map, and she can now better explain her proposed policies in campaign speeches in those states. Her performance also raised the level of enthusiasm of Democrats that can translate into more votes with more door knocking. Let's see where we are in a few weeks.

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Distributions / Re: Latest Linux Mint Upgrade ...

Last post by fox - September 15, 2024, 07:36:32 AM

If you've already done that, wouldn't you restore your home files from your backup? Or is your backup of the entire drive?

I still have a partition with Mint 21.3. I have a backup of it with TimeShift, but not a specific backup of my Home folder. (Note that the Home folder is not on a separate partition.) Can I then go to the Mint 22 partition (also without the Home folder on a separate partition) and restore just the Home folder from Mint 21.3? If not, what if I made a backup of just the Home folder on Mint 23 with a program like Backup? Could I then "restore" that folder in Mint 22?

Interestingly, I now have good reason not to get rid of the Mint 21.3 partition. I have a piece of statistical software called JMP on it; a very old version that works on Linux (with certain old 32 bit libraries installed). Getting that to work in Mint 22 would take a lot of work, unless those libraries transfer over with the Home folder, so I would keep 21.3 just for that program.

I believe I can back up that Home folder with software called Backup?