Onenote Wine Update In Parallel

You might recall that earlier this week, the firm announced that its bringing back OneNote 2016, finally adding some new features after being in maintenance mode for a while.

The first new feature is dark mode, which is available to all Insiders.

Onenote Wine Update In Parallel

That will make it easier to update in parallel with the rest of the lineup.

As was also noted earlier this week, Microsoft is planning to support both the desktop version of OneNote and OneNote for Windows 10 for the foreseeable future.

Support for OneNote 2016 now aligns with Office 2019, with mainstream support ending in 2023 and extended support ending in 2025.

Modern services and mentions were already announced, but theres more on the roadmap, as you can see from the image above.

Right now, you can share entire notebooks or a PDF of a page in a notebook, but theres no easy way to share just one section.

Microsoft promises that the Fluid Framework will break down barriers and allow you to collaborate at unprecedented speeds.

Plus, it requires an internet connection while install and wont deal even with local files until you signup with your MFT account.

Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts Log in sign up User account menu 10 Its high time we had this Port.

I have been looking for a good way to use OneNote on Linux since almost 2011.

A lot of people use Linux (CS students, developers, you name it) and OneNote is a fantastic application that simply cannot be accessed properly on Linux (no the web version isnt a good alternative it does not work offline, and its too resource heavy running within a browser).

It has been sufficiently long that the OneNote application time was first launched, for a port to have been made by now.

Microsoft even released VS Code, which runs on Linux So why not OneNote I have so much reliance on it that I cannot switch to some other note-taking application, and honestly its a great application, that exists for nearly all other mainstream platforms (iOS, OS X, Win, Android) why would I want to switch.

But just because people wont switch because of their dependency on an application, doesnt mean the dev teams should call it a day and not think about their end-users other priorities.

Please release OneNote for Linux like Microsoft did for VS Code.

I know Office is a commercial product, and I am not asking you to release the whole suite on Linux, just OneNote which has a lot of uses in Education Please consider doing this.

Thank you. I am also x-posting this to rOffice365 and rmicrosoft because I really, really, want someone to care about this issue 10 comments share save hide report 86 Upvoted This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast Sort by top (suggested) level 1 Former OneNote Engineer 6 points 2 years ago Ive definitely answered this before but Ill give you the latest.

On the web, the intent is that at some point we have reasonable parity with desktop features so as to make ONO a first class OneNote client.

Theres lots of effort in this area; one major stumbling block has been the lack of native ink in HTML5 which is actually part of the most recent spec so should improve the outlook when its implemented.

OneNote uses entirely different executables on each platform, so the amount of work required to port to Linux is quite substantial.

In addition, all the shared Office code which we consume has not yet been adapted for Linux.

One of the key problems with Win32 is that it has bugs which programmers depend upon, so Wine has to spend a lot of time being bug for bug compatible with Win32.

First, the new Office deployment tech called Click-to-run is super awesome and eliminates what can only be described as a living nightmare attempting to support MSI deployments (since consumers can pick and choose an infinite combination of patches, it requires infinite testing to ensure every dynamically linked DLL plays nice with every other version).

However, click-to-run is very high in the voodoo magic department, and Im not sure Wine has solid support there.

The testing notes on installing Office 365 on Wine indicate people are unable to activate it.

And to make matters even more annoying, the newest deployment (Win10 App) uses the appx format and isnt even a Win32 app (Wine is a Win32 environment) so it would require UWP support on their end before we could even begin to try that.

Your best bet at the moment is to use Wine with Office 2013 MSI.

Its still supported for security and there are few differences between the latest Click-to-run deployment compared with the 2013 MSI version when brought fully up to date.

From what I understand the support natively is pretty good (though I dont know if Wine implements windows features like Ink Analysis and Search Service).

There are also third parties which provide compatibility enhancement of some sort.

It would also be cool to see a OneNote clone for LibreOffice:) level 2 1 point 2 years ago Why does OneNote Online only work in Internet Explorer See: Continue this thread level 2 1 point 2 years ago there is a onenote win32 installer for windows 7 and up.

You can find on. Like all Office applications, it seems to be purposefully designed to crash in Wine by using undocumented APIs.

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