You are absolutely correct, you got both of them right!

This might be what you are looking for.

It is not uncommon to find “Wine wrappers” to actually work better than on Windows itself.

Definitely try “Read You”! It utilises Material You, has a sick UI and the dev is really nice. I think there are a lot of features, but I’ve just left almost everything on default.

There’s a FOSS companion app for AirPods on Android and some features are “locked” until you press “Activate” and choose “I’ve spent all of my money on AirPods” as a payment method.

I agree, though I think LibreOffice is not a great example as there’s very little room for error and something that you would need “dedicated support” for. That’s how I see it anyway. Never worked in an office.

However, the majority of companies that require using paid proprietary software also require the use of Windows itself. A safe bet in this situation would be to just set up a VM for work and use Linux for everything else.

If a piece of software requires you to re-buy itself for a different platform why would you use such an application? I don’t get why people choose to torture themselves when there are SO many alternatives to literally anything.