I would like to install excel, word and powerpoint without windows, because carrying my giant laptop to uni is less practical than the tiny steam deck and a small keyboard. Is there any proton magic that allows me to install the programs? I don’t care about one drive and online features.
Not Office 365 itself but you can always use the web version of Office 365 which has most of the features anyways. It works very well.
For an offline solution, look to LibreOffice.
Have you used Excel online? It’s pretty much unusable for me at work. I’ve needed missing features about 10 times this past week and that’s not even including dozens of weird bugs that are impossible to address. My (Linux) team is switching to using Windows remote desktop for Excel because of how many problems it has online
Doesn’t it have a web version?
The web version is laughably bad. Just today I started using a remote instance of Windows to get the desktop version
You can use office.com for free which has the Microsoft programs. If you want something you can use offline there are Linux alternatives. I think it’s called Libre office.
Yes libre office works really well. I prefer it over ms office. Less bells and whistles.
And you can still save in the (not latest) Ms format for compatibility.
I was about to suggest it myself. LibreOffice kicks ass.
Excel macros will be broken (hard) on libreoffice, unfortunately. I have 365 at work and use the web option. I think proton can do the trick for offline use, but never tried myself. If op don’t need macros, then libreoffice all the way.
Rule #1 of using linux, search for open source alternitives to windows software. Try openoffice or libreoffice instead for your productivity needs. Both should be available in the discover app
I’d recommend older versions like Word 2015. They’re still pretty modern but don’t have that stupid Microsoft DRM bs
Also I recommend Bottles, not proton. Bottles has dedicated settings for applications, and they’re separate from gaming
Proton/wine cannot run modern versions of Office. Just use the website of LibreOffice
You can always can use the web version. Also, let me suggest you OnlyOffice, which is open source and aimed to maximice compatibility with Microsoft Office. I’ve never been a hardcore MS Office user, so for me OnlyOffice is basically the same, down to the user interface.