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I'm seriously considering this since my MacBook Air is so pokey. I do use Microsoft Excel though on my Mac, however it's through Firefox and I find it perfectly acceptable compared to the desktop version I used to use. Anyone know if Excel on Firefox on Linux works as expected? I'd assume it did, but just wanted to make sure. Everything else I'm fine with.

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I think it should work as expected, there is generally parity between different OSs for Firefox. I use Google Sheets on my remote linux machine and that seems to work fine. I don't like LibreOffice though.

> Anyone know if Excel on Firefox on Linux works as expected?

I'm not experienced with this, but I can safely say that if you're willing to, you can use Office 2007 (probably 2010 and 2013, and maybe 2016, but that last one is slow). Alternatively, OnlyOffice has extremely good compatibility with MS Office and works well for the purpose.

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