> run Excel on Linux in Excel

This remind me of the top comment on Puter's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838179):

"I am the author of the 'app' called Puter which loads up Puter inside Puter, which then loads up the Puter app again, which ..."

I’d like to see bare-metal Excel.

I was going to say that first versions were technically that, but apparently Excel was never released for DOS, Excel 2.0 was already a Windows application, and 1.0 was only available on Mac.

It was actually a Windows application that shipped it's own runtime copy of Windows [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168173

Lotus 1-2-3 was available for DOS