[cpburns2009]

1. It works on Linux.

2. It has the classic menu and tool-bars.

Bonus: The price.

Chances are, LibreOffice is more than sufficient for the layperson. Even if the feature disparity was that of GIMP and Photoshop, 99% of the professional features would be left unused by the average person.

[megaman22]

I always had better luck running Word on Wine than I did using OO/LibreOffice on Linux, but that was a decade ago.

Word 2003, as a self-contained package that could run off a flash drive, was the pinnacle of office productivity in my books.