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		icc97 on Sept 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for M... Have you tried Wine? A lot of work has been done on it [0] with also help from the Steam devs [1] (that's mostly for games but it will have knock on benefits for Excel), and it was already reasonable back in 2010. [0]: https://www.winehq.org/announce/3.0 [1]: https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail...

osrec on Sept 1, 2018 [–]

I did try it once, but it played up on my machine (around 2014 was the last time I tried). Might give it another try at some point in the future.

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