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Power BI Desktop for Linux
A few months ago I migrated from Linux to Windows I hired Microsoft 365 for business everything was fine however in a matter of days I was filled with spam, win11 although it does not work so bad I find that it is a disaster as OS, apart from the fact that to use it they force you to make an account, and short story I already decided to go back to Linux, I'm in doubt if Fedora, Deepin or Debían, and analyzing which desktop if Gnome or KDE, but anyway no more Windows finished the course of power bi and chao windows
Linux IS FAR SUPERIOR as a desktop OS because of the PRIVACY and CONTROL you have. Your best bet is Fedora with the MATE desktop UI. Mate is a VERY clean and easy UI with great performance.
Many MS apps you need will run under some from of wine be it Crossover Office, Lutris, etc. The question will simply be (which is what I need to find out) what version of the MS suite/product works best with what version/setup of wine.
MS would do well to give up on their OS **OR** just make it a plain OS only with NOTHING (no browser, outlook, phone home, debug, etc.) installed by default and allow you to add what YOU (not MS) wants to the OS!If they didn't cram the universe plus the kitchen sink and bathtub into the OS and FORCE online use/online accounts I do not thing there would have even been an attempt to make a Linux desktop. The Linux desktop esists and is such an outstanding success BECUASE of microsofts tatics.
At this point they should just give up and release the whole office 365 line of software for Linux and reap the rewards of MANY more users of theitr software!
Problem with Wine is even if you can get it to work (which is hit and miss) I'm not sure it's completely legal. I'm not at liberty discuss the potential legality of Wine here...
Granted there istoo much fragmentation among the wine community BUT as long as you still have a license for the software you are running you should (in theory ONLY as I am not any legal authority either) be able to run it on your choice of OS on ONE system.
Support would be an issue but really who calls MS for upport these days when we have Google and YouTube. Plus if there are enough users that ARE running on Linux MS may finially wake up and see the need and make a Linux version OR support it being run in wine.
