Unfortunately the world runs on Word and Excel and unless you want the even worse Office 365 experience, you often do need some M$.
It's a lot more than just Office that requires Windows.
Anyway, real documents are written in LaTeX.
Windows lives in this in-between space where it isn’t as easy Google/Apple stuff, but it isn’t as good as Linux. That gap is always closing.
Tell me you've never had a job in the real world without telling me you've never had a job in the real world
Anyway if you want to edit word documents properly you have to unzip them and then write XML (eww). So this is the easiest option.