While both wine and CrossOver have claimed support for Microsoft Office running on Linux, the reality is more mixed and depends on your definition of what is included in Office.
Wine Onenote Sign In
Get OneNote for free! Works on Windows 7 or later and OS X Yosemite 10.10 or later.
Install Onenote On Ubuntu
Yes, the core applications Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint work. But in my interpretation, Microsoft OneNote is also definitely part of the Office suite and support for OneNote is unfortunately still very limited. My experience with OneNote under Linux is as follows.
| Version | Status | Compatability |
| OneNote 2016 | Limited | It will install and run, but it will not allow you to use notebooks stored on SharePoint servers or on OneDrive. Collaboration is therefore limited and you can only use locally stored notebooks. |
| OneNote 2013 | Limited | It will install and run, but it will not allow you to use notebooks stored on SharePoint servers or on OneDrive. Collaboration is therefore limited and you can only use locally stored notebooks. |
| OneNote 2010 | Limited | It will install and run, but it will not allow you to use notebooks stored on SharePoint servers or on OneDrive. Collaboration is therefore limited and you can only use locally stored notebooks. |
Onenote For Ubuntu
Update Dec. 2019: updated the table to reflect that OneNote 2013 and 2016 will now actually start, as announced here. I’ve also tried anbox as seen below.
- Note: Exporting and importing notebooks through OneNote for the web is only available for notebooks stored on personal OneDrive accounts, not for notebooks stored on OneDrive for Business or SharePoint.For information about exporting notebooks to PDF files from OneNote 2016 for Windows, see Export notes from OneNote as a PDF.
- I will provide directions that worked for me for a manual (non-script) installation of Microsoft Office 2016 Professional Plus on Ubuntu 18.04 using PlayOnLinux (POL) v4.3.4 and Wine x86 v3.4. All the apps except OneNote opens, though I have only really used Word and Excel so I can't speak for the functionality of the other apps.
Anbox is an android container environment for Linux. Therefore, it can also run the free OneNote app that Microsoft publishes in the Google Play Store.
Wine Onenote Download
Installation of Anbox is simple (I used the instructions on the ArchLinux wiki, but there is also a snap package). If you install the version that includes the Google Play Store, then you can easily install the free OneNote app:
My experience was, however, that it’s not yet a replacement:
- Typing is not instantaneous
- The app crashes often
Archlinux Onenote
I did not yet fully test copy pasting functionality (plain, HTML, images).