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Literally everyone I know that runs a Linux desktop and also has a job.
They don’t just use office from the web, via Linux? You can access excel, word, …, all of that in a browser.
I would not shut down my PC and boot into windows just for office. I keep my Windows around because my wife prefers it (for now).
I'm not one of the dual booters mentioned, but the desktop version of Excel specifically has several important features that the online version flat out doesn't support. Primarily I'm talking about creating and running data queries, which is useful for analyzing data and generating reports from remote data sources including external files like CSV and online databases. You can do all this without Excel of course, but this shows the online versions are definitely limited.
Yeah I think I'd be more likely to use WinBoat or something similar to run a virtual machine rather than fully boot into Windows.