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I am, it has Adobe Acrobat Reader:

Which I need when I have to declare my taxes in Romania since it's done via a PDF file that can't be opened and filled in with any other tool:

https://static.anaf.ro/static/10/Anaf/Declaratii_R/Aplicatii...

Firefox made some progress with this lately but it's still not good enough to allow me to fill it in.

Apart from this particular package, I use flatpak. So it's not like I'm "happy" about snaps, but I'm happy that the snap repository has the tools I need.

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In terms of that Adobe Acrobat Reader snap, how am I supposed to trust that the container is a maintained, trustworthy, and official version of the application? That looks to me sketchy to use as to my knowledge Acrobat Reader hasn't be released on Linux in over 9 years, and shouldn't be used/trusted given the large number of potential vulnerabilities...

This is the reason I don't trust snaps, as I have 0 way of auditing it. I know that there is a "verified" mechanism in snapcraft, but not all apps that are "official" or "trusted" have that tag, such as MusicBrainz Picard, published by the MusicBrainz team, so the only way I know they support it is going back to the official website, which also offers a more conventional PPA that is also easier to audit and trust given the GPG key processes in place there, which _should_ be a bit more trustworthy.

A little bit of googling suggests that particular snap is a Wine wrapper: https://github.com/mmtrt/acrordrdc/blob/master/snap/snapcraf...

Is that code the same as the one the other commenter linked? Not sure, doesn't seem to be a way to tell, as you've mentioned. (That was quite a surprise to me, even Flatpak's Flathub has a little "see details" link to GitHub.) But it would make sense as Adobe has indeed not maintained Acrobat for Linux in many years.

I am in the same boat (and country). I use PlayOnLinux.

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2653-Adobe_Acrobat_Reader...

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