Not until long ago, we had RTF, a simple and universal rich text format that was free, simple and available on all platforms.
On Windows, Wordpad was plenty enough for most needs, came preinstalled for free and barely consumed any resources, but I understand it's no longer shipping with Windows. Office 365 is now where the money is, even for basic needs.
Get ReactOS' ISO. Mount it or extract it with 7zip.
Find the biggest CAB file, it weights lots of MB. Extract it. Copy Wordpad.exe anywhere else.
Delete the rest if you want, or enjoy Sol.exe and friends.
