Sooner Boomer
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John, I don't know enough about Linux. My main concern is that I *must* use MS Word for textbook work. In fact all three co-authors use the same *version* of Word, because when working with 150 page (per chapter) documents with lots of formatting (super- and subscripts and other chemistry symbols and the like) we have found that different versions of Word sometimes give documents with slight differences. I know that's not supposed to happen but it has done so. Which is why we don't use the free MS-Office-compatible software.
If Word can be used within Linux, that should be satisfactory. If it has to run under Windows, even in a different partition or whatnot, there's little advantage to Linux for me. Oh well, so it goes.
Best -- Terry
I'm surprised you don't use LaTeX. I thought it was a sort-of defacto standard in technical academia.
https://www.latex-project.org/
The windows, linux, and mac versions DO format the same.