LibreOffice is pretty good these days. Like Google Docs, it's not a drop-in replacement for Office, but good enough for many uses.
Anything even slightly complicated, though, will look like a modern webpage rendered in IE6. This is merely annoying with Word documents, but downright catastrophic with PowerPoint slides. I don't care how many obscure features it can emulate if it can't even render line spacing properly.
If the crashes are reproducible, do be sure to file a bug.