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Step by step guide: How to install Microsoft Office in any Linux distribution

There are multiple options how to install MS Office on Linux.

VM-based - Integrate Windows apps running in a Windows virtual machine as native-looking in Linux

Winapps, based on KVM, QEMU, Docker/Podman and FreeRDP. Still actively maintained (getting Github commits). Decribed below
Cassowary, based on KVM, QEMU, libvirt/virt-manager, and FreeRDP. Has a helpful GUI and apparently can auto-suspend the VM when no Windows app is in use. Last release in Feb 2022 and seems to be abandoned.

The VM-based options means can run Office 2021 or Office 365 including all apps, but while the Windows apps themselves run flawlessly (as they're running on real Windows) there's various freerdp-related bugs you may encounter.

Ubuntu 22.04 Annoyances

Here are a few collected ways I like to customize Ubuntu 22.04 servers. I used to love Ubuntu, but I hate auto updates and snaps. They also put ads and other usless ads diguised as "news" in MOTD. ESM FUD is spread throughout the OS including simple apt functions. You do not need ESM and thus Ubuntu 22.04 has become super annoying. unattended-upgrade is an automatic installation of security (and other) upgrades without user intervention. Consider the ramifications of disabling this service.

Disable unattended upgrades

The Unattended Upgrades feature is enabled by default and it runs at system boot without the user's permission. The configuration is stored in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades

Disable: sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades then a TUI will come up, select "No"

This will not permantently disable the function. After an update it will be enabled. In the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades change these values from 1 to 0. Even doing this it will

Export Gnome Terminal Profile

List profiles

dconf dump /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/

Determine the terminal profile string for the profile you will need. This is the terminal profile that I will export:

Typing vagrant from the command line will display a list of all available commands.

Be sure that you are in the same directory as the Vagrantfile when running these commands!

Creating a VM

vagrant init -- Initialize Vagrant with a Vagrantfile and ./.vagrant directory, using no specified base image. Before you can do vagrant up, you'll need to specify a base image in the Vagrantfile.
vagrant init <boxpath> -- Initialize Vagrant with a specific box. To find a box, go to the public Vagrant box catalog. When you find one you like, just replace it's name with boxpath. For example, vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64.

Starting a VM

vagrant up -- starts vagrant environment (also provisions only on the FIRST vagrant up)

	-- This snipped will reverse the fill direction of the health bars like it is possible with VuhDo.
	-- It is quite invasive and might change in newer versions.
	-- There can also be issues with shield and absorb bars since I didn't know how the test them.
	-- NOTE: Snipped installs a hook on layout function. In order to disable it, you need to disable the snippset and reload the UI.

	-- whether to use full color for dead units or loss color
	local ATTENUATE_DEAD_BARS = true

	-- whether to use the reverse fill direction
	local REVERSE_FILL = true

	name: CI
	run-name: Zola blog deployment
	on:
	push:

	jobs:
	build:
	runs-on: ubuntu-latest
	environment: deploy
	steps:

	using namespace System.Management.Automation

	Register-ArgumentCompleter -CommandName ssh,scp,sftp -Native -ScriptBlock {
	param($wordToComplete, $commandAst, $cursorPosition)
	$knownHosts = Get-Content ${Env:HOMEPATH}\.ssh\known_hosts `
	\| ForEach-Object { ([string]$_).Split(' ')[0] } `
	\| ForEach-Object { $_.Split(',') } `
	\| Sort-Object -Unique

	# For now just assume it's a hostname.

	If you have an issue, when you can't change resolution of the MacOS installed in the VMWare even after VMWare tools has been installed.
	In my case it was not applyable resolution change. I had 1024x768 by default and when I tried to change it to 1600x900, etc. and got
	resolution jump and back to 1024x768

	You may set any supported by your device custom resoultion.

	Just run following command in MacOS Terminal and you will be happy :)
	/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Tools/vmware-resolutionSet 1920 1080

	NOTES:

	# -- mode: ruby --
	# vi: set ft=ruby :

	# All Vagrant configuration is done below. The "2" in Vagrant.configure
	# configures the configuration version (we support older styles for
	# backwards compatibility). Please don't change it unless you know what
	# you're doing.
	Vagrant.configure("2") do \|config\|
	# The most common configuration options are documented and commented below.
	# For a complete reference, please see the online documentation at

	# === Optimized my.cnf configuration for MySQL/MariaDB (on cPanel/WHM servers) ===
	#
	# by Fotis Evangelou, developer of Engintron (engintron.com)
	#
	# ~ Updated September 2024 ~
	#
	#
	# The settings provided below are a starting point for a 8-16 GB RAM server with 4-8 CPU cores.
	# If you have different resources available you should adjust accordingly to save CPU, RAM & disk I/O usage.
	#