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Some years back I used open office on a personal PC.

https://www.openoffice.org/

Word was fine. Excel, you felt it was more clunky and lost productivity. Never used the other formats.

Was good enough if you didn't want to pay and were using these infrequently.

OpenOffice has largely been replaced by LibreOffice. It's a perfectly fine office suite, but the draw of Office 365 and Google Docs aren't the document editors themselves, it's that you get E-Mail, chat, file storage and PIM in the cloud with it.

The alternative isn't just LibreOffice, it's LibreOffice + Postfix + ejabberd + Samba + Apache + Radicale, which you all have to put on a server somewhere and set up individually.

For a 11 year-old?

I mean, even at uni i worked locally.

I have been using LibreOffice for many years. Its doc editor Writer is better than newer versions of MS Word (better style management, better footer/header system, better font options), and its spreadsheet program Calc is pretty good for general purposes, although it lacks some of the advanced Excel features.

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