If I remember correctly, Only Office uses LibreOffice as its core and then adds or changes default stuff. I might be wrong about that. But ultimately I hear positive things about Only Office.

The hosting is on my old desktop which is running server 2016. I'd like to replace the OS on it too. I don't keep the box online so I'm not keen on using it for anything other than game servers.

Sounds like a perfect situation for loading something like Proxmox and then visualizing the Windows Server 2016 instance. You would basically have the exact same functionality but with way more options like cloning and backing up the server.

Appreciate you not going aggro on me over it.

No worries at all. I think the automatic defensiveness from Linux people comes from old misconceptions being repeated often. Or sometimes it comes from how something is read and interpreted. Someone might say "I can't switch because I need XYZ", to which a very literal response is "you can use ABC which does the same thing, so you can switch". When what the first person meant is "I can't switch because I prefer XYZ", which is a completely valid reason.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Right on, I'll have to check out proxmox, i don't have any experience with it yet. That'd be dope to switch at least one computer over to something linix based.