Not natively, but WPS office and LibreOffice work excellently even with Excel/Word formats. But I have been using only Word/PPT/Excel online and google Slides/Sheets/Docs in the past 5 years so I cant attest to the native experience. But the online versions are excellent for my use case, mostly presentations and word docs.
Depending on your needs, a lot of people can replace Word/Excel with LibreOffice's alternatives.
If that just won't cut it for your needs, perhaps using the web-based version of Word/Excel might be a viable solution?
I doubt Microsoft will care about native Linux-compability for the Office-package.
VSCode on Linux was not that big of a surprise, but SQL Server was definitely a surprise to me, so who knows, perhaps they'll deliver Office using Snap-packages or similiar :)
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Is it now possible to run Excel and Word on Linux? To me, it is the only red flag to install Linux.
Not natively, but WPS office and LibreOffice work excellently even with Excel/Word formats. But I have been using only Word/PPT/Excel online and google Slides/Sheets/Docs in the past 5 years so I cant attest to the native experience. But the online versions are excellent for my use case, mostly presentations and word docs.
Depending on your needs, a lot of people can replace Word/Excel with LibreOffice's alternatives.
If that just won't cut it for your needs, perhaps using the web-based version of Word/Excel might be a viable solution?
I doubt Microsoft will care about native Linux-compability for the Office-package.
VSCode on Linux was not that big of a surprise, but SQL Server was definitely a surprise to me, so who knows, perhaps they'll deliver Office using Snap-packages or similiar :)