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eylenburg / msoffice_in_linux.md
Last active December 8, 2025 19:14
Installing Microsoft Office in Linux

Step by step guide: How to install Microsoft Office in any Linux distribution

There are multiple options how to install MS Office on Linux.

VM-based - Integrate Windows apps running in a Windows virtual machine as native-looking in Linux

  1. LinOffice - Microsoft Office Launcher for Linux, my own fork of Winapps which is focused on only running Microsoft Office, with some Office-specific improvements over Winapps and a fully automated setup. Eventually I would like to create a GUI for it. Decribed below
  2. Winapps, based on KVM, QEMU, Docker/Podman and FreeRDP. Still actively maintained (getting Github commits). Decribed below
  3. Cassowary, based on KVM, QEMU, libvirt/virt-manager, and FreeRDP. Last release in Feb 2022 and seems to be abandoned.
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pirate / asymptotic_progress_bar.py
Last active August 29, 2024 00:37
Animated CLI progress bar that fills up over N seconds, gracefully handling delays by filling slower and slower if the task exceeds the expected time. Good for when you don't know how long a task is going to take, but you still need it to A. feel fast in the avg case, and B. not freeze in the worst case (unknown total time).
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# asymptotic_progress_bar.py
# MIT License © 2021
#
# A pretty non-blocking python progress bar timer that fills up asymptotically until you stop it.
# Good for when you don't know how long a task is going to take (up to some max timeout),
# but you want it to feel fast and accurate / not stuck the whole time.
# ████████████████████ 0.9% (1/60sec)
# useful for animating e.g. file copy progress, download progress, package install progress, etc.
#
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r0mdau / HFS.md
Last active October 20, 2024 15:31
How to recover pictures and files from failed MacOS / HFS+ hard drive with Linux

How to recover pictures and files from failed MacOS / HFS+ hard drive with Linux

A couple months ago, a friend ask me to repair a failing macintosh.

It appears the hard drive has multiple failures from SMART anlysis.

Next reboot... Oh crap, the operating system does not start anymore. The drive contains 10 years of pictures to recover. A heart pinch :'(

Important thing to know, if (certainely) the disk is crypted and you don't know the principal user login password,