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I like MS Word.Until now I have run it under a virtual Windows 10.
However I raely use anything else under Win10 so I thought I would try to install it directly to Mint usng wine.

So far the install via playonlinux crashes.

If anyone can offer an alternative method I would appreciate the suuestion.

Happy New Year by the way.

Alan
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 23:43:45 +0000, pinnerite wrote:

If anyone can offer an alternative method I would appreciate the
suuestion.

Microsoft 365 is officially supported under Linux.
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On 1/9/26 6:43 PM, pinnerite wrote:

I like MS Word.Until now I have run it under a virtual Windows 10.
However I raely use anything else under Win10 so I thought I would try to install it directly to Mint usng wine.

So far the install via playonlinux crashes.

If anyone can offer an alternative method I would appreciate the suuestion.

Happy New Year by the way.

Alan

Why Playonlinux? I've only heard of it but any Window software I want just loads in Wine
by clicking the .exe file (not sure if .msi work).

Just curious.
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pinnerite wrote:

I like MS Word.Until now I have run it under a virtual Windows 10.
However I raely use anything else under Win10 so I thought I would
try to install it directly to Mint usng wine.

MS Office '03 timeframe corresponds to WinXP.

WineHQ says that the most recent wine v. reported there was way back at
v. 3.12 and was rated platinum which is excellent; and/but the comments
says that it needs winetricks and mfc42.

Wine is currently at v.10.0 for about a year, 9 in LM repo/s, winetricks 20240105.

If I had a Word '03 I would probably run it under my W7, but normally I
just use current LO.

Sometimes I use a Hiren's if I want a WinXP to do something.

Personally I prefer to use a Win on occasion than Wine, but if I were
going to be a regular user of something like a wp, I would graduate to a current LO than my accustomed 'old shoe' of Office '03. I understand
how that works, but still, sometimes it is time to move on. However, I
still prefer IrfanView under Win than the alternatives.
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 19:54:29 -0500, "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> wrote:

Why Playonlinux? I've only heard of it but any Window software I want just loads in Wine
by clicking the .exe file (not sure if .msi work).

Just curious.

Playonlinux is an easy front-end for Wine.
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On 10/01/2026 01:47, Mike Easter wrote:

However, I still prefer IrfanView under Win than the alternatives.

I haven't looked at Wine for ages, but always understood (wrongly?) that
it could leave you open to Windows malware. IrfanView was so good that
it was the first free software I donated to. I now use XnViewMP instead.
It's not bad, although recent updates failed to install because of a requirement for a later version of libglig than Mint had. I eventually
got round the problem by running:
sudo dpkg -i --force-all XnViewMP-linux-x64.deb
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Mike Easter wrote:

Wine is currently at v.10.0 for about a year, 9 in LM repo/s, winetricks >20240105.

Wine 11 is imminent:

Wine 11.0-rc5 Released

January 9, 2026

The Wine development release 11.0-rc5 is now available. This is expected
to be the last release candidate before the final 11.0.

WhatrCOs new in this release:

Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

(from winehq.org)

-jw-
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 17:47:20 -0800
Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:

pinnerite wrote:

I like MS Word.Until now I have run it under a virtual Windows 10.
However I raely use anything else under Win10 so I thought I would
try to install it directly to Mint usng wine.

MS Office '03 timeframe corresponds to WinXP.

WineHQ says that the most recent wine v. reported there was way back at
v. 3.12 and was rated platinum which is excellent; and/but the comments
says that it needs winetricks and mfc42.

I had forgotten about winetricks.
I tried tat and it works.
Thank you. Alan

Wine is currently at v.10.0 for about a year, 9 in LM repo/s, winetricks 20240105.

If I had a Word '03 I would probably run it under my W7, but normally I
just use current LO.

Sometimes I use a Hiren's if I want a WinXP to do something.

Personally I prefer to use a Win on occasion than Wine, but if I were
going to be a regular user of something like a wp, I would graduate to a current LO than my accustomed 'old shoe' of Office '03. I understand
how that works, but still, sometimes it is time to move on. However, I still prefer IrfanView under Win than the alternatives.

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On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 23:43:45 +0000
pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:

I like MS Word.Until now I have run it under a virtual Windows 10.
However I raely use anything else under Win10 so I thought I would try to install it directly to Mint usng wine.

So far the install via playonlinux crashes.

If anyone can offer an alternative method I would appreciate the suuestion.

Happy New Year by the way.

Alan

After experimenting with the result,I found it wouldn't connect with my printer.
I will keep Windows 10 for when I need it.
I seem to be mostly using LibreOffice writer anyway.

I also attemoted to do without XP.
I only use it occasionally, mostly to drive my hopper-fed scanner.

Alan

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