Libreoffice
- Writer: not quite as slick-feeling an MS Word, but perfectly usable. The sidebar is pretty great tbh. Does the whole seperation of formatting and content thing slightly nicer than Word imo.
- Calc: look, MS Excel is one of the best pieces of software ever made. The entire world financial system relies on it. I’ve hacked together a working database in Excel, functions like structured tables are immensely useful even for normal admin workers. Calc simply can’t compete if you’re doing any real work. However, I don’t think any other spreadsheet program can either.
- Draw: hidden gem for making flyers and posters. There are better options for proper graphic designers, but if like me you just want to drop images and blocks of text in the right place on a page then it’s ideal.
Haven’t used the rest of the suite in over a decade, I don’t do slideshows so can’t really test Impress. But in my experience i would say that the only office program that is good enough to keep windows around is Excel. If you’re not working with spreadsheets one a regular basis then Linux has good enough alternatives imo.