LibreOffice is fighting the good fight and for most things it's a great substitute for word.
But I've always wondered what would happen if something like Latex were to become truly user friendly - I mean pre-compiled distributions that are easy to download and work without tweaking, relatively good wysiwyg viewers and a less obtuse maze of packages.
I don't think the fight here is Word vs LibreOffice vs Latex vs whatever, it's that it sucks when a very specific format (and workflow or tools, when the format is too complex to be universal like plaintext) is imposed on you even though the task at hand could be easily completed with dozens of different tools. I hate when msword .docs are imposed on me, and I'd hate it just as much if latex or libreoffice was imposed on me the same way.
But I've always wondered what would happen if something like Latex were to become truly user friendly - I mean pre-compiled distributions that are easy to download and work without tweaking, relatively good wysiwyg viewers and a less obtuse maze of packages.