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## But I need Microsoft Office!
Fine. Well, here are the latest developments. Traditionally, you had the two options of Wine, the compatibility layer, or going the VM route. Both suffer from their own flaws: Wine compatibility isn't perfect enough for Office, and VMs are resource-intensive, even if you want to make a few quick edits to a doc, and lack good graphical acceleration. [WinApps](https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps) will give you the best of both worlds: the seamlessness of Wine, and the compatibility of a VM, well, using a [QEMU/KVM](/blog/2020/11/19/fun-with-qemu-kvm.html) VM. WinApps runs a background RDP server and integrates the VM apps into your host desktop. If Wine is the analog of WSL, then WinApps is WSL2. The only problem is that it's a just a VM underneath, so you still get all the disadvantages of VMs. Still, if you have some RAM to spare, it might be enough to free your dependency on Windows for Office or Adobe apps. It's still under heavy development, so we'll see where it goes.
Fine. Well, here are the latest developments. Traditionally, you had the two options of Wine, the compatibility layer, or going the VM route. Both suffer from their own flaws: Wine compatibility isn't perfect enough for Office, and VMs are resource-intensive, even if you want to make a few quick edits to a doc, and lack good graphical acceleration. [WinApps](https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps) will give you the best of both worlds: the seamlessness of Wine, and the compatibility of a VM, well, using a [QEMU/KVM](/blog/2020/11/18/fun-with-qemu-kvm.html) VM. WinApps runs a background RDP server and integrates the VM apps into your host desktop. If Wine is the analog of WSL, then WinApps is WSL2. The only problem is that it's a just a VM underneath, so you still get all the disadvantages of VMs. Still, if you have some RAM to spare, it might be enough to free your dependency on Windows for Office or Adobe apps. It's still under heavy development, so we'll see where it goes.
![WinApps demo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Fmstrat/winapps/main/demo/demo.gif)