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Generally nobody should exchange Office docs anyway, I find it much more professional to exchange PDFs. I use MS arial so my PDFs made with LibreOffice look immaculate on any device. I think people are really shit for being so attached to their stupid office. I could not sell my dad on LibreOffice though. He'd rather pay 100 EUR/yr than learn to use new software.

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*immaculate on any device that has Arial, unless your PDF conforms to PDF/A.

Linux machines don't normally include Arial due to the license, and only PDF/A includes the fonts used in the document.

nit: normal PDFs may embed fonts, but PDF/A must embed them, and PDF/A is not the default in most programs.

In practice however most programs seem to include fonts in exported PDFs?

By default an Arial clone is present, ideally Arial is specified as a valid replacement font in the PDF if the user does not have the Arial clone present (Arial itself is a clone, but that is another story). It would require deeper investigation to see if this is actually the case. I've always wondered about this.

PDF/A has given me all kinds of issues (windows users get incorrect glyp placement with very bad results). Regular PDF has worked fine for me.

Ideally they wouldn't, but they do, so you have to meet them where they're at, which is Office.

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