For real, though, I really wish I could easily run Office with Bottles or something like that. Never managed to make it work

You beat me to it, so let me recommend what I check when Anna’s Archive and LibGen don’t have what I need (usually recent articles that are not on Sci-Hub): Standard Template Construct, here’s their GitHub repo

Good article about this: https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/02/02/floss-security/

Their privacy policy and data flow have been the same since the buyout, they were transparent about any implications and the mitigations put in place to protect users, so I’m alright with it. The biggest problem I have with them is sometimes getting rate-limited because of a VPN or Tor, but that’s it. Alternatives like DDG and Brave Search are usually bad for results in my native language, so I’ve been using Startpage for a couple years now and it’s nice