@Kelly said in How would you run Windows applications in your preferred Linux Distro?:
So we have a business need that requires we run Microsoft Office. This is not on the table for discussion of whether or not that can be changed.
With that out of the way, how would you all handle that in your preferred distro? We're looking at running Fedora/Ubuntu/Korora on Dell laptops, but we have to have MS Office because we have to be able guarantee the output we produce is viewed by our government customers exactly as we create it.
Running a full Windows VM is an option. I've wondered if there is something the equivalent of Parallels, where it exposes guest applications to the host OS, for Linux.
Any thoughts, questions, etc.?
there are 2 options: wine or full vm with windows licence. according to the hypervisor your use there is a mock up to add win apps to the linux menu when the VM is running in background.
in my experience wine is basically broken. anyway you can have a look at the compatibility list
here where the installer of MS works or not
if apps work has to be searched through the DB