I’m currently using Arch Linux in college and my advice will be to dual boot. In some lower div classes my specific professor wanted Visual Studio .sln files so there was no other way (I guess you could VM it but I’m not trusting that with my grade).
Group sharing documents, our schools and most schools are in the MS ecosystem so you can edit on word online through the onedrive thing.
For writing stuff I would mostly use libreoffice with the LanguageTool plugin installed.
For lockdown proctored exams, I would typically get a loaner laptop from school because no way am I downloading their sussy stuff.
Edit: Since you’re studying to be a psychologist, my first paragraph will probably not apply to you. If you want to, dual boot, if not, I think maybe you could boot up a vm if there’s some really niche use cases.