Write notes and draw in OneNote for Windows 10 With OneNote for Windows 10, you can handwrite notes and draw or sketch things in your notebook. This works especially well on a device with a touch screen, but you can also draw with a mouse. The new pen set is customizable and portable. Microsoft OneNote The digital note-taking app for your. OneNote was previously excluded from Office 2019 installations. As of March 2020, the OneNote desktop app is once again installed alongside the Word, PowerPoint, and Excel desktop apps. If you need to install or reinstall the OneNote desktop app (formerly called “OneNote 2016”), do the following: Download OneNote. Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS. Office 2010 Professional x86. $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa. Microsoft OneNote. Digital partially x-platform (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, web) note-taking app. Part of the Microsoft Office suite. Notes are stored and synced in the OneDrive cloud. Capture thoughts, ideas, pages, multimedia, to-dos, sync them to various devices. Store and share your notebooks on OneDrive with a free Microsoft account.
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.
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. |
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.
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.
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:
Archlinux Onenote
- Typing is not instantaneous
- The app crashes often
Wine Onenote
I did not yet fully test copy pasting functionality (plain, HTML, images).