Unavailability of Microsoft’s Office on Linux has almost always been one reason why most people don’t migrate to Linux from Windows. While Linux has many cool office suites like LibreOffice, people stick to Microsoft Office because they’re habituated to using the same and probably don’t have enough time to learn using LibreOffice.

What if we told you that you can now run Microsoft Office apps as if they were a part of the native OS? Developed by Hayden Barnes, who also developed Windows Subsystem for Linux, WinApps lets you do the same with the help of a kernel virtual machine. Think of this as Windows Subsystem on Linux.

Here’s a guide on how you can install and configure WinApps and run Windows apps on Linux. Mind you, WinApps is available only for Ubuntu/Fedora Linux and GNOME/KDE desktop environments.

Here’s a list of all the apps that work as of writing this article:

• Internet Explorer 11
• Microsoft Access (2016)
• Microsoft Access (2019)
• Microsoft Access (Office 365)
• Microsoft Excel (2016)
• Microsoft Excel (2019)
• Microsoft Excel (Office 365)
• Microsoft Word (2016)
• Microsoft Word (2019)
• Microsoft Word (Office 365)
• Microsoft OneNote (2016)
• Microsoft OneNote (2019)
• Microsoft OneNote (Office 365)
• Microsoft Outlook (2016)
• Microsoft Outlook (2019)
• Microsoft Outlook (Office 365)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (2016)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (2019)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (Office 365)
• Microsoft Publisher (2016)
• Microsoft Publisher (2019)
• Microsoft Publisher (Office 365)