I replaced my entire Microsoft Office setup with free alternatives

I’ve had a Microsoft 365 subscription for a while, and it’s a solid suite if you use everything it offers. The problem is that I don’t. I never touched OneDrive’s full storage, I don’t need Teams, and paying for Microsoft Office features I ignored every month started to feel pointless.

So I swapped my entire Office setup for free alternatives — Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Thunderbird, and LibreOffice — and my workflow hasn’t suffered for it. If you’re in the same boat of paying for more than you actually use, these free tools cover more ground than you’d expect.

Google Docs handles my writing just as well as Word

It does everything I need without the subscription baggage

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