I’ve tried Open Office off and on a few times.
Without fail it will crash.
How does Wine work? Actually runs the apps more or less natively in Linux or does it create a sort of Windows VM?
WINE creates a virtual Windows layer allowing Windows applications to run in a Windows VM in Linux.
Far from perfect because the Windows source code is proprietary and making applications run under WINE is often hit and miss.
It’s not an emulator, or so I hear....