I got that. I don’t like Win 10. In fact I haven’t liked anything MS has put out since Win7. So as soon as I can figure out how to do it, I’ll install Linux.
I think Libre Office is similar to OpenOffice (I learned Word, but I’ve never used it since I had to quit work, and heard about OO.) The thing that scares me about Linux is if I have to do any partitioning. I don’t know how to do that, but I’m so fed up with Win 10 that I want to trash the laptop, and all the while I understand that it’s not the laptop (it’s an HP) it’s the OS.
I just need to set aside a few hours when I’m feeling brainy and get busy. It’s that or buy a laptop with Linux already on it. I know Win 10 is slowly killing this machine.
You can get a graphical disk manager in most flavors of Linux that will let you partition disks. I’m not sure why you’d want to, though.
IIRC, OpenOffice is now LibreOffice, tho I’m not sure how that came to be. In any case, the product development continues, it reads, edits, and writes native MS Office files, and the price is right as rain.
Ubuntu comes with LibreOffice, Firefox, and the Thunderbird email client.
My own dive into Linux... I probably wouldn’t have been so bold if the laptop had been my only one. Since it was not the only available machine, I went ahead. And I WIPED it; no “dual boot” configuration. I wrote the Linux O/S right over the top of everything.