Same.

I was sure the emotional manipulation tactic would be extremely effective. Guess it was a little too blatant, even for the general public.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Because people want fancy animations, images, videos, stylized text, etc. And the easiest way to accomplish that is to just use a browser under the hood.

Not a requirement, but a preference.

Onlyoffice looks like it might be good, I’ll give it a try.

Can’t stand libreoffice, it feels much like Office 2007 which was the worst version I ever had to use — fixed with 2013 and 2016, but libre hasn’t caught up.

E: Found freeoffice which looks to have much closer parity to MS Office. I don’t have a problem buying perpetual software licenses in these situations. I’d prefer FOSS, but for productivity software it has to be conducive to getting work done.

There’s really only two programs that make moving to Linux very problematic for me, that’s Photoshop, and Word.

At least with word I can ultimately just sequester that into a VM, or learn a different document program if push comes to shove (RIP all my workflows for citations and templates).

But PS is pretty much non-negotiable, it needs GPU acceleration of a native environment to run well, and there just aren’t any alternatives that can do what PS does — I need real channel support (painting on channels, copying between them per layer, actual alpha support instead of naive transparency) and more. As much as I hate Adobe, PS is one of those tools that I just know intuitively, all the texture or photo manipulation work feels entirely natural, and I just don’t think I’m going to find that ever again.

So, if Linux people can get it working through Wine, it’s a huge relief that I can finally leave the Microslop ecosystem.