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Power BI Desktop for Linux
Does anyone know if there is a linux version of PowerBI Desktop? Or if there is any workaround?
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Anonymous wrote:
Has anything changed?
No, nothing has changed.
Will there be PowerBI Linux client?I have not heard any announcements about this, but from what I know of the Tabular engine it is very closely tied to the Windows OS. Rather than building a linux port of Desktop a more likely approach is for them to extend the web editing functionality.
Dear Microsoft. Please endorse GNU\Linux Wine as a legal option to run MS Windows programs. This would no only help with Power BI but it would also help with legacy programs that for whatever reason don't run well in "modern" versions of MS Windows.
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...
there should be a linux version. Windows11 sucks as always they do before. We need to get rid of this OS
It would help if Microsoft would get rid of that pointless TPM requirement for Windows 11. Contrary to popular belief, I'm pretty sure TPMs and Total Volume Encryption (without PIN) [1] are of limited use security wise. Instead, I think the TPM requirement is maybe Microsoft's way of phasing out older hardware...
I'm going to try to avoid a lenthy rant here, but as an amatuer musician at home, I am constantly fighting Microsoft's attempts to force me into upgrading very expensive but perfectly working audio software/hardware. At work, I have to waste massive amounts of Desktop resources firing up a Win 10 VM in QEMU/KVM to run Power BI and Visual Studio when I can't do what I want in Visual Studio Code, .NET Core and Google Charts. My assigned desktop at work is not really powerful enough to properly host Virtual Machines.
[1] - If you aren't using a PIN with your BitLocker encryption, I suspect you are highly vulnerable to data theft loss if your device is ever stolen.Have you tries a version of wine like Crossover Office or Lutris? I need to try to download the Software and see if I can get it working under wine.
I am going to try and see if I can install it with WINE either the CrossOver Office version, Lutris, wine that comes with my Fedora version, or a wine version right from wineHQ.
I'll post what I find out once I do all my tests. Wine has yet to not be able to run what I need. It is just a matter of what type or setup of Wine I need.
How barbaric, I don't know how I got to this discussion, but I'm reading the posts, I see the dates of them and I almost burst into tears. Today, May 21, 2024, it seems like the last 4 years have disappeared. Nothing has changed, the doubts are the same, the possible solutions are the same as those that have already been raised. 4 years later, that's saying soon. It's disappointing, I can't say anything else.
There is no linux version of Power BI Desktop. The only "work around" would be to use a windows virtual machine either on a local VM or using one of the cloud providers.
