>Side note how's open office compatibility these days? Last time I tried it yeeears ago there were still compatibility problems that would have made group projects hard.

While Open Office still exists (and is being actively supported), LibreOffice (forked from OpenOffice fifteen years ago) gets more frequent updates, is more broadly used, and is widely preferred over OpenOffice these days.

I use it and it's a nice replacement for the Microsoft Office suite. In fact, I have Microsoft Office and prefer LibreOffice over it.

I suggest giving LibreOffice[0] a look. Many of the compatibility issues have been resolved and it works nicely.

[0] https://www.libreoffice.org/

Yeah, academically I know that but OpenOffice was king back when I needed it so I forget and default to calling it by the old prefork name.

Since then I've mostly been at a job where Office is provided and rarely have need of it at home.

> Open Office still exists (and is being actively supported)

Actively supported is a stretch. Look at these commits.

https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk/

LibreOffice is definitely a better choice than OpenOffice.

For using Teams, I'd recommend just using the web client. I did try installing the Microsoft native client for Linux, but all it seemed to do was open an empty window (i.e. not drawn in, so it showed what was under where it appeared) and wasn't at all functional. The web client seems to work, though I don't use it very often.