While I'm sympathetic to this because it's, well, simply true for many people, I think it's always important to bear in mind that > Linux doesn't do what I nee

While I'm sympathetic to this because it's, well, simply true for many people, I think it's always important to bear in mind that > Linux doesn't do what I need it to do with respect to the established MS Office norms I have to conform to. Is an entirely deliberate outcome that Microsoft has pushed hard for over decades (as you'd expect, since losing that monopoly is an existential threat to them).