electron-office VS onedriver

An employee at Microsoft has actually experimented with wrapping Office 365 in Electron and also released packages for Linux.

An employee at Microsoft even did this in his spare time.: https://github.com/matvelloso/electron-office

For O365 there is this Electron wrapper. But not much else can be done and this is Microsoft's fault, not Linux's. We can't create a fully featured client for Microsoft just because Microsoft doesn't want to.

There’s also electron-office which works pretty well but I think there are some features missing in the online version of office so I haven’t used it much.

onedriver is a native Linux filesystem for Microsoft OneDrive: - https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver

Alternatively, I read good things about https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver which can download only the files that I need at times instead of the whole account, but looking at the install methods on debian, there's only information regarding Debain 10 and 11 installs. For example, I can install .deb packagaes here, but again only refers to deb 10/11.

There are OneDriveGUI which uses abraunegg's onedrive client as backend, onedriver which has been around with a GUI for longer, and of course the classic Insync which is paid.

I am a big big fan of the OneDriver client - https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver

* Via the 'onedriver' client - https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver - Native file system that only provides the OneDrive 'on-demand' functionality, open source and free. Supports Personal, Business account types. Currently does not support Shared Folders or SharePoint.

/home/my_usr/.cache/paru/clone/onedriver/.gitignore src pkg *.tar.xz *.tar.gz *.tar.zst *.log /home/my_usr/.cache/paru/clone/onedriver/PKGBUILD # Maintained by Faisal Moledina (faisal at moledina dot me) pkgname=onedriver pkgver=0.13.0 pkgrel=0 pkgdesc="Native Linux filesystem for Microsoft OneDrive" arch=('x86_64') url='https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver' license=('GPL3') depends=('fuse2' 'webkit2gtk') makedepends=('pkgconf' 'go') source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::$url/archive/refs/tags/v$pkgver.tar.gz") sha512sums=('aa831017c4d9612fbdea1e2fab05864f84074e6b80e7613ae739d2954e7b6e975d6a1aaaaba330c0038dae69839dcf6> build() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" export CGO_CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" export CGO_CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" export CGO_CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}" export CGO_LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" go build \ -v \ -trimpath \ -buildmode=pie \ -mod=readonly \ -modcacherw \ -ldflags "-X main.commit=$(git rev-parse HEAD) -linkmode external -extldflags \"${LDFLAGS}\"" \ ./cmd/onedriver export CGO_CFLAGS="-Wno-deprecated-declarations ${CFLAGS}" go build \ -v \ -trimpath \ -buildmode=pie \ -mod=readonly \ -modcacherw \ -ldflags "-X main.commit=$(git rev-parse HEAD) -linkmode external -extldflags \"${LDFLAGS}\"" \ ./cmd/onedriver-launcher } package() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" install -Dm 755 $pkgname "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/$pkgname install -Dm 755 $pkgname-launcher "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/$pkgname-launcher install -Dm 644 "resources/[email protected]" "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/user/[email protected] install -Dm 644 resources/$pkgname.desktop "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications/$pkgname.desktop install -Dm 644 resources/$pkgname.png "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/onedriver/$pkgname.png install -Dm 644 resources/$pkgname.svg "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/onedriver/$pkgname.svg install -Dm 644 resources/$pkgname.1 "$pkgdir"/usr/share/man/man1/$pkgname.1 }

When you get to it - there are only 5 reliable ways to access OneDrive on Linux/Unix platforms: * Via the OneDrive Client for Linux - https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive - this 'syncs' your data, bi-directional operation, open source and free. Supports Personal, Business & SharePoint account types and Shared Folders. A Docker container is also available for all major architectures (x86_64, ARMHF, AARCH64). If you need a GUI for onedrive client management use: https://github.com/bpozdena/OneDriveGUI * Via the 'onedriver' client - https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver - Native file system that only provides the OneDrive 'on-demand' functionality, open source and free. Supports Personal, Business account types. Currently does not support Shared Folders or SharePoint. * Via 'rclone' - https://rclone.org/ - one way sync client, open source and free. Has limitations with SharePoint. * Via non-free clients such as 'insync', 'ExpanDrive' * Via the web browser of your choice

There are OneDrive clients for Linux already, e.g. https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive or https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver.

Take a look at OneDriver. Its a decent OneDrive client for Linux and works really well! It should pair up nicely with LibreOffice, which is a Microsoft Office alternative that is preinstalled on most Distros. Don’t worry, Google Drive also works (honesty not as good as OneDriver). most distros should allow your to “connect to online accounts,” which should allow you to sign in with your g account.