johnywhy wrote: > I'm well aware there are other factors to choosing a Linux distrib than whether it runs wine. I was not asking for general tips on how to pick a Linux distrib. I was only asking which one runs ms office on wine best. > > Based on my minimal experience, I successfully ran ms excel on ubuntu, but could not get it to work on debian-based AV Linux, suggesting some linuxes run ms office better than others. Is that a mistaken conclusion? In the my experience most cases are related to what version of Wine and any Wine extras the distro distributes by default. Also desktop effects etc. 99% of the time if I can get it to run on one distro it will run on the other, sometimes a it just needs a bit tweaking.