The solutions here seem to be split into two camps: 1. Use Okular / Evince / Poppler / Sumatra / Zathura / whatever (actually, I think you might begin to see t

The solutions here seem to be split into two camps: 1. Use Okular / Evince / Poppler / Sumatra / Zathura / whatever (actually, I think you might begin to see the problem already). 2. Use Acrobat Reader in Wine. Neither of these is going to appeal to my family members whose idea of a good time is not installing something via "Software Center" and spending ages tweaking the configuration to work properly, so they can use a half-speed version of Acrobat Reader on Windows. They will probably end up sticking with Mac or Windows. Which is perfectly fine, because no one is forcing them to use Linux. I just want to point out that stuff like this totally kills the idea of "Linux for the everyday user". First you have to offer them a lot of the stuff which they are accustomed to (a decent document editor, a decent PDF reader), then slowly increase their awareness about software freedoms. It is unfortunate that most FSF zealots end up reversing this order, and driving away the common user. Solutions? I'm not sure, maybe someone can weigh in. The best I can think of right now is for organizations like Canonical and Red Hat who might be interested in promoting Desktop Linux to pay for Adobe to release and support Acrobat on their distros. Either that, or actively put in some sort of a translation chart in the OS for common users "Acrobat <-> Evince" or such.