It does exist! https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/workspace/administration/connect-zotero.aspx

Will try it on some files next week.

I use onlyoffice for pptx files as I had better results than with libreoffice. But I don’t think there is a zotero plugin for it. Will check again as it has been a while.

Office is provided in managed windows pc, we are free to use Linux but then we are on our own. I will not buy an office version with my own money. So winboats, winapps and VM are not possible. I’ve used winapps in the past and it was pretty nice though.

Not compatible with zotero citations.

I’ve done it with students but I have many collaborators and it is impossible to ask all and for some it would be unthinkable to not use word… Younger one are now moving to Google docs (where you can use zotero or other reference manager). While not perfect, that’s much better.

Unfortunately I still have to keep a windows around for word. Colleagues are still writing papers in word with zotero citations in those and except if they setup the citation as “bookmarks” (which is not fail proof) opening and saving in libreoffice would break the citations… Office is provided by my workplace and cannot run in wine. So I have it on a laptop that I use to run specific software to interface with diverse sensors (another reason to keep windows) and RDP in it from my linux workstation.

Otherwise I’ve been using linux since 2005 non stop, now on Fedora silverblue since 5 years I think and I’m enjoying my days. Just today I needed to install a piece of software that required java 17, did it in a toolbox with fear of breaking other software or the system. Pretty reassuring. No dist-upgrade fear, automatic updates on, most apps as flatpak or in a toolbox, and just working. I’ve stopped distro hoping, customizing my DE and just use Gnome vanilla, and focus on using the pc as a tool.

At home I have a 10 years old laptop with Fedora silverblue, that I turn on when need to do some private stuff, admin mostly in the browser (Firefox of course) and even if it has been a while I can just update to the last version , thanks to atomic updates. Never had a problem.

My needs are basic so I have had always a good experience on linux distros.