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What should I write my document in if I want them to both to be rich, readable and can be open natively by both linux and windows? I want to write documents and put them in a git repo that could reside on either. Should I use OpenOffice or is there a more lightweight option?
Probably the lightweight option would be Rich Text Format (RTF), which can be opened by Linux (OpenOffice, AbiWord, KOffice) and also by Windows (Microsoft Office and also WordPad!). I suggest looking at the Wikipedia article.
The downside is that it’s not as versatile as newer formats (OpenDocument and Microsoft’s Docx format). You might want to use OpenDocument format as it is a standarized open format and supported by most office suites. Microsoft Word’s format IIRC also standarized, but I don’t think support is very good for edge cases in editors other than Microsoft Word. I also don’t know how good OpenDocument format is support in Microsoft Word, especially for saving documents.
If you don’t need any advanced feature, you could probably settle with RTF =)