Yes
Possibly the last person on earth to try linux
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Off the top of my head.... Open Office and Thunderbird.
The Online Office stuff that everyone should have been using for the past 5-ish years works fine on any platform, Linux included.
Office 365?
Yeah (or whatever the hell they call it now.) I have local versions of spreadsheet, document shit, and presentation shit just like I did when running Windows. I haven't needed an installed version of something like Outlook for a long time. The online client for both Office and Google stuff is plenty capable for me, and then I know I can see it the same no matter where I access it from.
The usefulness of the installed programs is hit or miss - mostly hit, but a few things are annoying as ****. I don't use it enough for it to be a big deal, though. If one used Excel all day every day I would tell them to stick with Windows, because these have a few things wrong with them that would drive one nuts if they spent years using Excel and moved to this. The one that pisses me off is importing fixed-width text files. I do database shit, so someone may want a relatively simple query - I can just type that and dump it into a txt file, then import it into Excel fairly easily. LibreOffice and WPS are kind of stupid at recognizing the break-points in a fixed-width text file, even if it has underlined headers clearly showing where the break points are. Excel has that problem a lot too, though. The annoyance is that these programs don't establish it as a "data connection" like Excel does. If I take the time to mark the column breaks in Excel and send it to them and they ask for a few more records I can update and re-run my simple query and then "refresh" the data in Excel. This one makes me start from scratch again - a minor annoyance for me, but could be a computer-stabbing scream-cussing irritation if that's what someone did all day every day.
Not all enterprises will allow for their use. I know we do not.
In that case, Linux is irrelevant anyway since if they lock you down to certain applications, they almost certainly lock you down to a specific OS or even version of OS.