[sgbeal]

> I have no idea why this idea is around,

To the best of my fallible knowledge, the notion was first popularized via <http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764>.

[kristianp]

Thanks for the link, interesting that it was written in 2020. It doesn't take into account the fact that Office has never been ported to Linux. Many versions can be run on Wine of course.