I find myself in a weird situation. I've been editing DOCX. The cloud is the best place to keep the editing portable. But the proliferation of 5G networks in the Philippines is pointless if web apps still choke on it and is incredibly inconsistent indoors. And not only that, but Word Online does not have feature parity to Desktop Word, because of one thing: textboxes.
Textboxes are a legacy hack to introduce complex layouting to rather simple documents, but for some reason, Word rasterizes it, which defeats the point of a textbox, and causes the text to blur on adjustment.
And even if your documents are local only, Word on Android requires the internet.
Google Docs is a highly capable offline editor for DOCX, but I just found out, it destroys Document Styles and mutates the styling of more complicated DOCX files, like Footnote styles. I get not being able to apply some styles, but wiping it out of the document entirely? The fuck?
Libreoffice has been killing it with its upgrades recently, and now handles Textboxes better. It is closing in on being a legitimate substitute for Word documents. It is still quirky when it comes to textboxes and compatibility mode though. However, it cannot run in Android! And there is no project to port it to Android (well, there was Collabora, but I refuse to acknowledge it because it can't even get past opening a document). My linux skills are still on the level of using VNC is awkward and VNC pointer on a touchscreen is not really comfortable, and I can only hope linux emulation improves for those who aren't techy enough to do VNC+chroot.
Each and everyday I hate on Android, because there is nothing productive to be had on it except maybe doing some art or consuming media. It has decent processors and decent battery life, but nothing in terms of productivity. Heck, for cross-platform productivity applications, web apps have come to a point to be better feature wise, and Android Tablets really might as well be just better Chromebooks, because Google would rather sandbox the linux layer to oblivion than extend its capabilities for more serious productive purposes.
I just want to be productive and portable. But it appears that the only productivity I'd get being portable is lugging a 14" laptop around.