- LibreOffice supports all office document formats
- are you not using a web mail client like most people nowadays? either way, there are free open source desktop mail clients available
- part of the journey is breaking away from the cloud where big tech owns your online identity
- syncthing is the ideal solution for file storage, but a lot of people use nextcloud because it's closer to the cloud drive experience they have become used to 

 Thank you, for these resources. If I go this route will come to this and probably have questions or more so for sure. 
It does seem like a good idea if I am going to do a reset to also break further away from big tech though not quite sure how that works.  

 baby steps. think about it as a five year journey