Linux would need to be willing to safe the work millions of people put into memorizing excel, word and windows workflows.
“Linux” needs to do nothing of the sort.
People who want to save their work by moving to a platform without those issues need to be willing to either do the work or pay for it.
Libre Office (and a couple others) is pretty close to MsOffice. Not exact, but close.
> Linux would need to be willing to safe the work millions of people put into memorizing excel, word and windows workflows.
It's a fair point. Organizational and personal inertia is a real thing.
Maybe think of it as going through a divorce and entering a new relationship. You do it mostly because you want to, and sometimes you do it because you have to.
OS as a digital spouse analogy? too far-fetched? think of how much time you spend with it in a day :-)